Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5978951-adam-shelp">Adam Shelp</a> (31 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Adam Shelp (31 Lists)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Superhero Fiction

847 books — 1,242 voters

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Most Poetic Book Titles

2,033 books — 900 voters

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

Best Steampunk Books

1,293 books — 4,126 voters

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

Paranoia in Fiction

46 books — 24 voters

Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

New School of Noir

206 books — 272 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Best Books for Reluctant Readers

2,645 books — 2,770 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Drunken Masters

281 books — 376 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Best Transgressive Fiction

893 books — 973 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

32,552 books — 123,943 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Latin American Fiction

893 books — 1,200 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Odyssey by Homer

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,876 books — 6,999 voters

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Matter by Iain M. Banks

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,134 books — 9,194 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

Best Spy Novels

1,414 books — 2,531 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The King's Speech by Mark Logue

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Hotel Rwanda by Frederic P. Miller

I Only Watched the Movie!

1,219 books — 6,121 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Smiley's People by John le Carré

1,016 books — 1,242 voters

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

Count Zero by William Gibson

Best of Cyberpunk

387 books — 1,199 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,878 books — 49,826 voters

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

New Speculative Fiction Stars

1,203 books — 2,832 voters

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale

The Hunter by Richard Stark

Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels

104 books — 129 voters

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,290 books — 11,633 voters

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

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Young Adult Books

13,215 books — 80,468 voters

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The City & The City by China Miéville

Kraken by China Miéville

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Embassytown by China Miéville

Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction

889 books — 492 voters

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

Best Crime & Mystery Books

7,446 books — 16,348 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

767 books — 1,012 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,655 books — 26,857 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

3,096 books — 10,087 voters

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,264 books — 8,133 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,990 books — 26,648 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Books Ever

78,305 books — 291,925 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

1984 by George Orwell

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,728 books — 25,787 voters

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