Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/7021734-shai">Shai</a> (37 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shai (37 Lists)

The Noble Eightfold Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi

In the Buddha's Words by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi

Theravada Buddhism

21 books — 9 voters

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Introspective Journals

27 books — 16 voters

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

The City & the City by China Miéville

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009

332 books — 238 voters

Embassytown by China Miéville

Hugo Nominees 2012

9 books — 15 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Candide by Voltaire

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

Most influential books under 100 pages

278 books — 962 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson

254 books — 250 voters

Kant's Transcendental Idealism by Henry E. Allison

Transcendentalism

121 books — 63 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

The City & the City by China Miéville

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Nebula Award Runners-Up

219 books — 80 voters

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Finch by Jeff Vandermeer

Best Weird Fiction Books

1,247 books — 1,168 voters

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...

715 books — 554 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,752 books — 6,906 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

1984 by George Orwell

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Best Books To Frame Thinking

1,346 books — 1,530 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

161 books — 164 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

The Shining by Stephen King

Darkest Books of All Time

1,314 books — 1,732 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

This Is the End...

1,016 books — 1,607 voters

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,291 books — 11,638 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,996 books — 26,654 voters

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

The City & the City by China Miéville

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Best 21st Century SF

151 books — 86 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Best Social Science Fiction

540 books — 384 voters

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Inversions by Iain M. Banks

Dune by Frank Herbert

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

140 books — 20 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Neuromancer by William Gibson

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Nebula Award for Best Novel

62 books — 392 voters

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Hugo Award Nominees 2013

25 books — 22 voters

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Solar System Opera

104 books — 98 voters

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Excellent Space Opera

1,119 books — 3,823 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Best Short Stories

1,768 books — 1,079 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

444 books — 582 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Best Experimental Books Ever

1,122 books — 1,826 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time

106 books — 985 voters

A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 1 by W.K.C. Guthrie

Diogenes of Sinope by Luis E. Navia

The World of Parmenides by Karl Popper

Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes

A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 2 by W.K.C. Guthrie

Ancient Greek Philosophy - Best Secondary Literature

43 books — 13 voters

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks

Embassytown by China Miéville

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,136 books — 9,199 voters

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