Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tom (10 Lists)



Hamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonEthics by Baruch Spinoza
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William BlakeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David HumeSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,009 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyEither/Or by Søren KierkegaardLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,886 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,793 voters

The Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieWhite Noise by Don DeLilloSatantango by László KrasznahorkaiBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySayonara, Gangsters by Genichiro Takahashi
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,432 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBig Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo YanBlinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters

Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan2666 by Roberto BolañoGilead by Marilynne RobinsonThe Museum of Innocence by Orhan PamukThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,365 voters
The Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Three Sisters by Anton ChekhovThe Dance of Death by August StrindbergThe Secret Agent by Joseph ConradSanshirō by Natsume Sōseki
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
482 books — 857 voters

The Cannery Boat and Other Japanese Short Stories. by Takiji KobayashiThe Silent Cry by Kenzaburō ŌeSanshirō by Natsume SōsekiSayonara, Gangsters by Genichiro TakahashiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
774 books — 3,250 voters
The Door by Magda SzabóThe Mandarins by Simone de BeauvoirThe Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Women in Translation
931 books — 305 voters