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

852 books — 1,270 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

2,032 books — 900 voters

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

Best Steampunk Books

1,293 books — 4,160 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

2,662 books — 2,797 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Drunken Masters

287 books — 377 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

892 books — 971 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

32,958 books — 125,105 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Latin American Fiction

907 books — 1,232 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

1,878 books — 7,006 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

1,233 books — 9,158 voters

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

Best Spy Novels

1,477 books — 2,736 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!

1,227 books — 6,116 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

1,041 books — 1,092 voters

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

Count Zero by William Gibson

Best of Cyberpunk

396 books — 1,242 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

7,818 books — 49,884 voters

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

New Speculative Fiction Stars

1,244 books — 2,912 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

106 books — 131 voters

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,273 books — 11,710 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

13,360 books — 80,690 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

910 books — 507 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

7,505 books — 16,705 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

785 books — 1,025 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,815 books — 26,998 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

3,185 books — 10,205 voters

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,414 books — 8,209 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

4,090 books — 26,992 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

79,443 books — 296,206 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

8,837 books — 26,147 voters

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