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



The Last Sunset by March Lions
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,927 books — 2,079 voters
The Fever by Megan AbbottL.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
Dark Academia
365 books — 1,498 voters

One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 312 voters
The Street by Ann Petry
Lemonade Syllabus - A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Inspired by Beyonce
225 books — 73 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 — 18 voters

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Compelling CanLit Fiction
374 books — 53 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 — 104 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 — 15 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
2,557 books — 4,620 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
2,235 books — 4,485 voters
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,907 books — 264 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 — 114 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
264 books — 213 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Best Books of 2010
1,574 books — 2,472 voters
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Philip K. Dick Award Winners
49 books — 36 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 — 14 voters
Art and Fear by David Bayles
Best Books for Overcoming Artist's Block
33 books — 28 voters

Doctor Faustus by Thomas MannSelected Stories by Robert WalserThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassAusterlitz by W.G. Sebald
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 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
1,081 books — 369 voters

Falling to Earth by Kate SouthwoodDeath's Dark Abyss by Massimo CarlottoThe Rage by Gene Kerrigan
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 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
1,319 books — 943 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
100 books — 64 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
1,037 books — 531 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
401 books — 54 voters

Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 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
580 books — 514 voters

Arcanum 17 by André Breton
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
126 books — 104 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
1,568 books — 2,120 voters


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