Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Don Edgar (202 Lists)



Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamMacbeth by William ShakespeareGreat Expectations by Charles DickensOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyKing Lear by William Shakespeare
The Vilest Woman in Fiction
120 books — 95 voters
The End of the Affair by Graham GreeneHowards End by E.M. ForsterEndgame by Samuel BeckettThe Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultThe Lay of the Last Minstrel, and The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
’end’ or ‘last’ or ‘lost’ or 'final' in the title...
733 books — 20 voters

Trieste by Daša DrndićThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareRichard III by William ShakespeareThe Antiquary by Walter ScottThe Pirate by Walter ScottThe Heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott
Authors With A Last Name Starting With "S"
913 books — 46 voters

The Foreign Correspondent by Alan FurstNight Soldiers by Alan FurstDark Star by Alan FurstThe Russia House by John le CarréThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Literary Spy Stories
229 books — 237 voters
The Histories by HerodotusPeter the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Best History Books
4,102 books — 4,696 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Charterhouse of Parma by StendhalThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
829 books — 1,578 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensScaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Fiction Set During French Revolution
37 books — 66 voters

Ringan Gilhaize by John GaltBeowulf by Seamus HeaneyUlysses by James JoycePygmalion by George Bernard ShawThe Bruce Trilogy by Nigel Tranter
British Authors Who Aren't English - Fiction
72 books — 12 voters
Ringan Gilhaize by John Galt
Scottish Lost Treasures
16 books — 2 voters

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelBurr by Gore VidalLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryExodus by Leon UrisThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Literary Historical Fiction
1,231 books — 1,561 voters
The Aeneid, Volume 1 by VirgilThe Song of Roland by UnknownThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyIliad, Books 1–12 by Homer
World's Greatest Epics
205 books — 135 voters

The Aeneid by VirgilJoan of Arc by Mark TwainThe Nibelungenlied by UnknownSaint Joan by George Bernard ShawThe Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Amazons, Valkyries, and Warrior Women
698 books — 538 voters
Billy Bathgate by E.L. DoctorowCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyShella by Andrew VachssPretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtryNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime
144 books — 68 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,652 books — 70,196 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Iliad by HomerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters

An American Spy by Olen SteinhauerThe Russia House by John le CarréThe Bridge of Sighs by Olen SteinhauerThe Confession by Olen Steinhauer36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer
Post-WW2 Espionage and Crime Fiction
109 books — 21 voters
Anna Karenina by Tom StoppardVoyage by Tom StoppardShipwreck by Tom StoppardSalvage by Tom StoppardThe Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
Best of Tom Stoppard
66 books — 4 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareKing Hereafter by Dorothy DunnettMacbeth the King by Nigel TranterMacbeth (English National Opera Guides, 41) by Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
43 books — 16 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Red and the Black by StendhalWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLife and Fate by Vasily Grossman
100 Best Novels in (English) Translation, from the guide by Boyd Tonkin
100 books — 26 voters

Rob Roy by Walter ScottJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Return of the Native by Thomas HardyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Flavorwire's 50 Greatest British Novels of the 19th Century
53 books — 32 voters
Warlight by Michael OndaatjeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
655 books — 313 voters

The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsGet Shorty by Elmore LeonardThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2,605 books — 6,280 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeNight Soldiers by Alan FurstMila 18 by Leon UrisThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukExodus by Leon Uris
WWII Historic Fiction
1,533 books — 1,661 voters

The Secret Agent by Joseph ConradThe Sea Wolf by Jack LondonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
480 books — 866 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerCrabwalk by Günter GrassBonhoeffer by Eric MetaxasThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
A WWII Reading List
744 books — 391 voters

Mission to Paris by Alan FurstPerfume by Patrick SüskindA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelPure by Andrew Miller
Paris: historical novels set in Paris
59 books — 13 voters
Ice Road by Gillian SlovoThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio BassaniWarlight by Michael OndaatjeCrabwalk by Günter GrassMila 18 by Leon Uris
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
699 books — 610 voters


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