Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/64645958-jdl">JDL</a> (59 Lists)

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?

30 books — 29 voters

Malakut and Other Stories by Bahram Sadeghi

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Het boek der koningen by Abolqasem Ferdowsi

The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

کلیدر by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Iranian Fiction

46 books — 55 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

r/TrueLit Read-Along Selections

12 books — 1 voter

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

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

Best French Literature

829 books — 1,579 voters

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

And Then There Were None: Deadly Parties

190 books — 119 voters

The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Closed Circle Mysteries

89 books — 25 voters

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

New York Review Books - Classics

633 books — 913 voters

Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr

The Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson Carr

The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr

Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

British Library Crime Classics

160 books — 116 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Books with movie adaptations that were actually pretty good

123 books — 36 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

32,652 books — 70,195 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Asja by Ivan Turgenev

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

Best Russian Literature

501 books — 2,312 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

HRF Keating 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books

101 books — 47 voters

The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr

Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr

The Judas Window by Carter Dickson

A Locked Room Library

91 books — 5 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time

1,069 books — 903 voters

The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen

Solve-it-yourself Mysteries- All Ages

66 books — 51 voters

The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen

The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen

The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr

The Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen

The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner

Otto Penzler Presents American Mystery Classics

87 books — 18 voters

Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh

Nine and Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson

Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh

The Case Of The Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Cruising for Crime

66 books — 13 voters

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

Classic Mysteries (fiction)

229 books — 181 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,273 books — 11,711 voters

Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Best Poetry Books

3,078 books — 2,752 voters

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Best of Mark Twain

52 books — 113 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Southern Literature

1,414 books — 2,700 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Ahead of All Parting by Rainer Maria Rilke

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Highest Rated Books on Goodreads (with at least 100 ratings)

319 books — 444 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

100 books — 1,708 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

MUST READ RUSSIAN CLASSICS

113 books — 144 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

World's Greatest Novellas

739 books — 1,485 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

J R by William Gaddis

The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Best Dalkey Archive Titles

152 books — 87 voters

S. by J.J. Abrams

Horcynus Orca by Stefano D'Arrigo

Prae by Miklós Szentkuthy

Rabelais' Codpiece

134 books — 147 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Dead by James Joyce

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

Best Short Stories of All Time

616 books — 414 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Greatest Big Novels

76 books — 21 voters

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