Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/6405831-caddy-compson">Caddy Compson</a> (32 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Caddy Compson (32 Lists)

Ka by Velimir Khlebnikov

The Theater of Nelson Rodrigues by Nelson Rodrigues

Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)

1,273 books — 167 voters

Ka by Velimir Khlebnikov

Ridiculously Underrated Books (20 Ratings or fewer)

2,041 books — 212 voters

Ka by Velimir Khlebnikov

A Geração que Esbanjou Seus Poetas by Roman Jakobson

REALLY, Really Underrated Books (Fewer than 100 Ratings)

1,576 books — 243 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books

924 books — 2,381 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Clelie by Madeleine de Scudéry

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

127 books — 39 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Family Saga Novels

817 books — 858 voters

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras

L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar

Coup de Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar

Women authors who don't write chick lit

650 books — 72 voters

1968 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

1968, O Ano Que Não Terminou by Zuenir Ventura

1968 by Michael T. Kaufman

1968 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit

1968 by Regina Zappa

1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)

234 books — 74 voters

Poema de Mío Cid by Anonymous

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous (Lazarillo de Tor...

La catedral del mar by Ildefonso Falcones

Mediterranean Melting Pot (I): Medieval Spain

139 books — 62 voters

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Collected Plays by Luigi Pirandello

Italian Journey by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia

To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia

Mediterranean Melting Pot (II): Sicily

132 books — 51 voters

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Exploring Taboos

207 books — 143 voters

Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Adonis by Adonis

Rituals by Cees Nooteboom

Own Death by Péter Nádas

Candidates for the 2012 Nobel

33 books — 31 voters

Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin

Le mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin

Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller

70 books — 38 voters

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

My Lai by James Stuart Olson

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

The 900 Days by Harrison E. Salisbury

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

War has no winners

1,133 books — 489 voters

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,753 books — 1,631 voters

The Shining by Stephen King

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,133 books — 10,105 voters

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

Sentimento do Mundo by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Libertinagem / Estrela da Manhã by Manuel Bandeira

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis

O Encontro Marcado by Fernando Sabino

Brazilian Literature

140 books — 43 voters

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Opening Sentence

219 books — 151 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Nope, I ain't gonna read this crap, and I don't care that I can't follow mainstream conversations because of it.

302 books — 124 voters

A ditadura escancarada by Elio Gaspari

Hércules 56 by Silvio Da-Rin

1968, O Ano Que Não Terminou by Zuenir Ventura

As Barbas do Imperador by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Chatô, o Rei do Brasil by Fernando Morais

South America - History and Culture

359 books — 124 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Two Women by Alberto Moravia

Absurdity of War

124 books — 52 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

O homem sem qualidades by Robert Musil

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

O Original de Laura by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series

62 books — 81 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Sympathy for the Devil

331 books — 319 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler

The Immoralist by André Gide

383 books — 152 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Books with Unreliable Narrators

501 books — 489 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Best Existential Fiction

447 books — 766 voters

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar

Times Are A-Changing

105 books — 28 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Song of Roland by Unknown

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Best Middle Ages Books

1,217 books — 1,697 voters

The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter Weiss

Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig

Four Classic Novels by Alexandre Dumas

The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas

The French Revolution

231 books — 293 voters

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

Transcultural Fiction

421 books — 209 voters

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