Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jeffrey (20 Lists)



The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstA Boy's Own Story by Edmund WhiteDancer from the Dance by Andrew HolleranGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best Gay Fiction
2,675 books — 3,883 voters
السد by محمود المسعديحدّث أبو هريرة قال by محمود المسعديالوشم by عبد الرحمن مجيد الربيعيEl amor, las mujeres y la vida by Mario BenedettiLa tregua by Mario Benedetti
Unjustly Untranslated
107 books — 26 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosThe Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Mexican Americans in Fiction
48 books — 12 voters
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
California Historical Fiction
279 books — 132 voters

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne WigginsThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Poetic Book Titles
1,996 books — 893 voters
Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionJazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales by Wanda Coleman
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
323 books — 290 voters

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
Best Books of 2007
1,115 books — 992 voters
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,185 books — 28,365 voters

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
National Book Award Finalists - 2012
21 books — 49 voters
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Pulitzer Prize Finalists
81 books — 103 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerSelected Poems by Langston HughesTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Black History Month
554 books — 494 voters
Aria by Susan Segal
Best Survival Stories
1,169 books — 1,611 voters

Aria by Susan Segal
Books You Wish More People Knew About
17,388 books — 10,364 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaThe Complete Poems by John KeatsThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Best Poetry Books
2,999 books — 2,481 voters

The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullersWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverWillful Creatures by Aimee BenderWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosThe Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes
Best American Short Story Collections
123 books — 66 voters
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazDear Life by Alice Munro
flavorwire most anticipated books of fall 2012
15 books — 144 voters

Reasons to Live by Amy HempelEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Best Book Titles
11,935 books — 8,242 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Collections of Short Stories
2,900 books — 2,043 voters

Call Me Waiter by Joseph Torra
Boston Books
332 books — 279 voters
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction by Álvaro UribeFolk Song by Li XiaoColors of the Mountain by Da ChenCollected Novellas by Gabriel García MárquezReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Non-American books that every American should read
694 books — 495 voters