Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by DB (71 Lists)



The Royal Family by William T. VollmannThe Rifles by William T. VollmannImperial by William T. VollmannFathers and Crows by William T. VollmannLast Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann
20 books — 22 voters
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Best Book Covers 2010
138 books — 52 voters

Imperial by William T. VollmannRising Up and Rising Down by William T. VollmannRiding Toward Everywhere by William T. VollmannPoor People by William T. VollmannKissing the Mask by William T. Vollmann
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,236 books — 8,067 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Existential Fiction
452 books — 777 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaBlindness by José Saramago
Dystopia!
1,219 books — 2,751 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Books about Books
1,385 books — 1,519 voters
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Books You Can't Live Without
1,649 books — 1,183 voters

The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonLast Days by Brian Evenson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,337 books — 15,855 voters
Fredy Neptune by Les Murray
Novels in Verse
428 books — 757 voters

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonEurope Central by William T. Vollmann
World War II Fiction
1,397 books — 2,028 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro MutisUlysses by James JoyceThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Books I Have Every Intention Of Reading This Year
7,750 books — 2,663 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceTree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,996 voters
Against the Day by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonVineland by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 261 voters

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Stories For Book Lovers
8,412 books — 8,498 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Recommended Reads
3,688 books — 1,534 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Tales of New York City
1,676 books — 1,235 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce1984 by George OrwellMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,853 books — 10,479 voters
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellEurope Central by William T. Vollmann
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
962 books — 759 voters

Hopscotch by Julio CortázarInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoHopscotch by Julio CortázarOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
868 books — 1,162 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño
My Favorite Books of the New Millenium
17 books — 17 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsWhite Noise by Don DeLilloPnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 606 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLolita by Vladimir NabokovInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
100 books — 295 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages
106 books — 99 voters

Suttree by Cormac McCarthyChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Great Books of Southern Fiction
380 books — 441 voters
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,228 books — 3,919 voters


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