Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5899412-shelby">Shelby</a> (69 Lists)

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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Dubliners by James Joyce

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Best Irish Books

692 books — 617 voters

Dubliners by James Joyce

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Best Irish Literature

650 books — 727 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Bark by Lorrie Moore

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

Women's Short Stories

611 books — 39 voters

Ten Men Dead by David Beresford

Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe

The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Books about the Northern Irish Troubles

120 books — 59 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

59 books — 27 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

261 books — 353 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best Books of the Decade: 1890s

496 books — 512 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Best Books of the Decade: 1880s

369 books — 423 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

480 books — 867 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

758 books — 1,136 voters

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

876 books — 1,267 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Stranger by Albert Camus

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

815 books — 1,160 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,166 books — 1,526 voters

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,921 books — 1,899 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,320 books — 2,450 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Short & Sweet Treats Under 250 Pages

997 books — 437 voters

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee

Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections

125 books — 75 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut

Memoirs of Madness

318 books — 406 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Best Books of 1992

511 books — 202 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Best Books of 1989

381 books — 230 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Holes by Louis Sachar

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,131 books — 3,697 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Good short fiction

689 books — 391 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Drown by Junot Díaz

Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme

Best Short Stories

1,798 books — 1,118 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Drown by Junot Díaz

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Short Story Collections

1,612 books — 932 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937

377 books — 753 voters

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Bonk by Mary Roach

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Spook by Mary Roach

You Read a Book about What?

4,202 books — 2,567 voters

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Florida by Lauren Groff

The 2019 Tournament of Books Longlist

76 books — 431 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Best Woman-Authored Books

9,116 books — 7,084 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Most Poetic Book Titles

2,037 books — 902 voters

Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Most Anticipated Books of 2019 Not From a Series

340 books — 510 voters

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