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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Serdar (13 Lists)



The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 517 voters
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,134 books — 9,193 voters

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste by Lester BangsPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester BangsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Books on Rock and Roll
904 books — 1,286 voters
The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Best Existential Fiction
462 books — 785 voters

Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Books on Loneliness
517 books — 498 voters
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
Cultural Criticism Classics
4 books — 4 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Depressing Books
429 books — 429 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Literature
1,204 books — 2,843 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyVALIS by Philip K. Dick
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,826 voters
Notes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de AssisSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Opening Sentence
220 books — 151 voters

No Longer Human by Osamu DazaiNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyLast Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
What a Downer...
331 books — 117 voters
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.Notes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Room by Hubert Selby Jr.Eyewitness Auschwitz by Filip MüllerThe Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,290 books — 11,633 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Best Books Ever
78,299 books — 291,893 voters