Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/7275847-rj">RJ</a> (24 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by RJ (24 Lists)

The Wager by David Grann

Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid by Grantlee Kieza

Libra by Don DeLillo

Girl A by Abigail Dean

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

2025: What People Born in the 1980s are Reading in 2025

664 books — 39 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Spider by Patrick McGrath

2024: What People Born in the 1980's are Reading in 2024

929 books — 30 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Hamlet by William Faulkner

Light in August by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Reivers by William Faulkner

Best of William Faulkner

85 books — 64 voters

The Hamlet by William Faulkner

The Odyssey by Homer

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

2023: What People Born in the 1980's are Reading in 2023

901 books — 28 voters

I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,356 books — 1,778 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Junky by William S. Burroughs

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,181 books — 1,507 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Dubliners by James Joyce

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

Homicide by David Simon

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,782 voters

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Nelly Dean by Alison Case

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Power Without Glory by Frank J. Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

2022: What People Born in the 1980's are reading in 2022

1,137 books — 49 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,704 books — 6,871 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Angel's Command by Brian Jacques

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

Watchmen by Alan Moore

A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

The Names by Don DeLillo

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Joseph Banks by Patrick O'Brian

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,433 voters

Homicide by David Simon

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,129 books — 3,678 voters

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Juno And the Paycock by Seán O'Casey

Othello by William Shakespeare

Best Plays Ever

853 books — 1,129 voters

Richard II by William Shakespeare

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates

The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates

2021: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2021

1,301 books — 114 voters

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian

Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian

The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian

Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian

The Aubrey-Maturin Series

18 books — 3 voters

Three Sea Stories by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Banks by Patrick O'Brian

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Whites by Harry Brandt

Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian

2020: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2020

1,388 books — 132 voters

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Breath by Tim Winton

Light in August by William Faulkner

The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian

Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian

2019: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2019

1,407 books — 161 voters

The Angel's Command by Brian Jacques

Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques

Salamandastron by Brian Jacques

Mossflower by Brian Jacques

Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques

Redwall and Other Brian Jacques

37 books — 40 voters

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Best Cormac McCarthy Books

17 books — 182 voters

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,686 books — 14,181 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Dubliners by James Joyce

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

Best Books Ever

76,282 books — 283,708 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Twilight by William Gay

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan

2016: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2016

2,139 books — 373 voters

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017

1,639 books — 239 voters

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Miller Plays by Arthur Miller

H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian

Moon Palace by Paul Auster

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

2018: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2018

1,679 books — 244 voters