A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jarrel Oliveira (11 Lists)



A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
79,429 books — 296,113 voters
The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo
Best True Crime
1,511 books — 2,151 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Most influential books under 100 pages
292 books — 987 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Books White People Need to Read
1,479 books — 1,862 voters

Yol by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,089 books — 26,987 voters
World War Z by Max Brooks
Zombies!
1,717 books — 4,386 voters

World War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Horror Novels
2,130 books — 5,691 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,273 books — 11,708 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,902 books — 1,799 voters
The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangHiroshima by John HerseyKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best History Books
4,101 books — 4,693 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,944 books — 125,081 voters