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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Cynthia (75 Lists)



The Last Sunset by March Lions
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,940 books — 2,087 voters
The Fever by Megan AbbottL.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
Dark Academia
380 books — 1,509 voters

One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe
Best Art and Art History Books
810 books — 350 voters
The Street by Ann Petry
Lemonade Syllabus - A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Inspired by Beyonce
229 books — 77 voters

The Memory Police by Yōko OgawaLe Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Proustian Echoes
19 books — 10 voters
The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinA God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
2015 Locus Fantasy Novels Recommended Reading List
22 books — 20 voters

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Compelling CanLit Fiction
371 books — 52 voters
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneLife by Georges PerecThe Restraint of Beasts by Magnus MillsCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsBouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
151 books — 105 voters

Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon334 by Thomas M. DischFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Nebula winners and nominees (1966-present)
381 books — 24 voters
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Drowning Pool by Ross MacdonaldThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Best Literary Mysteries
2,707 books — 5,124 voters

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2,606 books — 6,278 voters
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,976 books — 277 voters

The Mabinogion by Evangeline WaltonGloriana by Michael MoorcockGrendel by John GardnerWas by Geoff RymanThe Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
66 books — 115 voters
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Surrealist Literature
202 books — 232 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Best Books of 2010
1,578 books — 2,478 voters
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Philip K. Dick Award Winners
49 books — 38 voters

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickGloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael MoorcockGateway by Frederik PohlRiddley Walker by Russell HobanOn Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award
53 books — 16 voters
Art and Fear by David Bayles
Best Books for Overcoming Artist's Block
33 books — 27 voters

Doctor Faustus by Thomas MannSelected Stories by Robert WalserThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassAusterlitz by W.G. Sebald
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
951 books — 973 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfSentimental Education by Gustave FlaubertLife A User's Manual by Georges PerecThe Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,080 books — 370 voters

Falling to Earth by Kate SouthwoodDeath's Dark Abyss by Massimo CarlottoThe Rage by Gene Kerrigan
Europa Edition Books
129 books — 143 voters
Fever Pitch by Nick HornbyThe Furies by Janet HobhouseDarkness Visible by William StyronParis to the Moon by Adam GopnikSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,437 books — 1,640 voters

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkePatterns of Childhood by Christa WolfDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Threepenny Opera by Bertolt BrechtThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
German Classics
227 books — 151 voters
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
SZ-Bibliothek - 100 Great Novels of the 20th Century
101 books — 65 voters

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre BayardWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,110 books — 692 voters
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. HoffmannBlitzcat by Robert WestallMrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline AlexanderWhy Cats Paint by Heather Busch
Awesome Cat Books
402 books — 54 voters

Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 voters
The Driver's Seat by Muriel SparkPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Great Short Short Books
594 books — 540 voters

Arcanum 17 by André Breton
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
136 books — 107 voters
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggRiddley Walker by Russell HobanStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,044 voters


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