Big Books of Spring

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jerry Hilts (11 Lists)



The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGood Omens by Terry PratchettMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Humorous Books
4,402 books — 8,031 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyUlysses by James JoyceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books Ever
77,912 books — 290,641 voters

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,314 books — 1,439 voters
Moral Politics by George LakoffThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonRights of Man by Thomas PaineThe Republican War on Science by Chris C. MooneyRepublic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig
Best Progressive Reads
1,069 books — 724 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,451 books — 69,724 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,578 books — 18,685 voters

The Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Iliad by HomerRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Great Books: No Novels Need Apply
457 books — 123 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUnderworld by Don DeLilloUlysses by James JoyceThe Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,809 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,413 books — 123,455 voters
Design Patterns by Erich GammaStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy HuntRefactoring by Martin Fowler
Top Ten Most Influential Programming Books of All Times
21 books — 58 voters

Refactoring by Martin FowlerDesign Patterns by Erich GammaThe Practice of Programming by Brian W. KernighanStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson
Best programming books
60 books — 39 voters