Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5864156-ryan-mcwilliams">Ryan Mcwilliams</a> (28 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ryan Mcwilliams (28 Lists)

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Tales of New York City

1,519 books — 1,226 voters

Orfeo by Richard Powers

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Best of Richard Powers

15 books — 23 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,694 books — 14,234 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,187 books — 28,372 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Best Books of the Decade: 1810s

141 books — 326 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.

103 books — 94 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

Best Books of the Decade: 1890s

467 books — 499 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Best Books of the Decade: 1880s

378 books — 413 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

258 books — 346 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Best Books of the Decade: 1860s

235 books — 398 voters

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related T... by Edgar Allan Poe

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Best Books of the Decade: 1830s

237 books — 218 voters

The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper

Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper

Best Books of the Decade: 1820s

200 books — 150 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Best Books of the Decade: 1850s

223 books — 303 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Typee by Herman Melville

Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Best Books of the Decade: 1840s

280 books — 384 voters

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Best Graham Greene novels

25 books — 203 voters

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

32,243 books — 68,926 voters

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)

1,907 books — 264 voters

1984 by George Orwell

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value

8,081 books — 5,759 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,130 books — 3,678 voters

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,259 books — 2,432 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,955 books — 1,881 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,362 books — 1,777 voters

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

905 books — 1,255 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

765 books — 1,129 voters

Howards End by E.M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Dubliners by James Joyce

Best Books of the Decade: 1910s

530 books — 776 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

467 books — 855 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,183 books — 1,509 voters

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee

1984 by George Orwell

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

821 books — 1,145 voters