Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/637062-jacob">Jacob</a> (49 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jacob (49 Lists)

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Nickel Mountain by John Gardner

October Light by John Gardner

Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

There Ought to be a Band

2,423 books — 1,101 voters

Meneer Beerta by J.J. Voskuil

Vuile handen by J.J. Voskuil

Plankton by J.J. Voskuil

Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut by J.J. Voskuil

En ook weemoedigheid by J.J. Voskuil

Unjustly Untranslated

107 books — 27 voters

Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Greg Steinmetz

Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

The Gossamer Years by Michitsuna no Haha

The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read

2,990 books — 1,154 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Conundrum by Jan Morris

Trans Books by Trans Authors

605 books — 418 voters

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

Catherine of Siena by Catherine of Siena

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

21 Women Writers From Before 1500 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

10 books — 15 voters

The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao Xueqin

Pilgrimage, complete in 4 volumes by Dorothy M. Richardson

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg

And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer

Books Which NR Ought to Read But Has Not Read YET

81 books — 43 voters

Amsterdam Stories by Nescio

English translations of Dutch Literature

218 books — 34 voters

The Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Кысь by Tatyana Tolstaya

Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Best Modern Russian (1991-current) Literature

105 books — 52 voters

This Census-Taker by China Miéville

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Patience is Wisdom's Companion: Forthcoming for 2016

55 books — 32 voters

Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen

The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Great First Lines

92 books — 86 voters

The Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota Kristóf

The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya

Women in Translation

931 books — 305 voters

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Best Woman-Authored Books

8,512 books — 5,482 voters

Jubilee by Margaret Walker

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beloved by Toni Morrison

100 Books by Black Women Everyone Should Read

103 books — 56 voters

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Dead by James Joyce

The Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Great Short Short Books

583 books — 519 voters

Mercy of a Rude Stream by Henry Roth

O, How the Wheel Becomes it! by Anthony Powell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley

Titles that Allude to Shakespeare

128 books — 49 voters

Dance of the Ariadnes by Sharon Spencer

Just two ratings

112 books — 21 voters

Women and Men by Joseph McElroy

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Haunted Pool by George Sand

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Books that Sound So Much More Interesting If One Removes the Last Letter of the Title

1,190 books — 248 voters

The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao Xueqin

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

The Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Martian by Andy Weir

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Your Top 5 Reads in 2014

1,608 books — 1,249 voters

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

Pilgrimage 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson

Pilgrimage 2 by Dorothy M. Richardson

Pilgrimage 3 by Dorothy M. Richardson

Pilgrimage 4 by Dorothy M. Richardson

Large Experimental Books by Women

87 books — 71 voters

Just one rating

583 books — 55 voters

Over the Rainbow? Hardly by Chandler Brossard

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Titles with a Question Mark?

1,242 books — 131 voters

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel

Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read

50 books — 107 voters

Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg

U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer

With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The 800+ page Gorillaz

459 books — 518 voters

Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian

Books to Read in Another Life

123 books — 33 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Instructions by Adam Levin

Flavorwire's 25 Big Novels that are Worth Your Time

25 books — 23 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

A Melville Checklist

19 books — 8 voters

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Old New York by Edith Wharton

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Great Women Authors

1,207 books — 333 voters

The Slynx by Tatiana Tolstaia

No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin

Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb

Lonesome You by Park Wan-suh

My Son's Girlfriend by Jung Mi-Kyung

Women Around the World

1,177 books — 437 voters

Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg

And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Historical Sagas

195 books — 67 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

50 Best short novels under 200 pages (Flavorwire)

55 books — 111 voters

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