Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/8127473-don-edgar">Don Edgar</a> (199 Lists)

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The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

The 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 Drndić

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani

Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy

98 books — 114 voters

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Antiquary by Walter Scott

The Pirate by Walter Scott

The Heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott

Authors With A Last Name Starting With "S"

913 books — 45 voters

The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst

Night Soldiers by Alan Furst

Dark Star by Alan Furst

The Russia House by John le Carré

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Literary Spy Stories

216 books — 227 voters

The Histories by Herodotus

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

Best History Books

3,879 books — 3,923 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Best French Literature

884 books — 1,573 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

Fiction Set During French Revolution

35 books — 63 voters

Ringan Gilhaize by John Galt

Beowulf by Unknown

Ulysses by James Joyce

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The 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 Mantel

Burr by Gore Vidal

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Exodus by Leon Uris

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Literary Historical Fiction

1,163 books — 1,114 voters

The Aeneid, Volume 1 by Virgil

The Song of Roland by Unknown

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley

Iliad, Books 1–12 by Homer

World's Greatest Epics

204 books — 135 voters

The Aeneid by Virgil

Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

The Nibelungenlied by Unknown

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

Amazons, Valkyries, and Warrior Women

697 books — 535 voters

Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Shella by Andrew Vachss

Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime

142 books — 67 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

32,445 books — 69,702 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Iliad by Homer

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books

100 books — 312 voters

An American Spy by Olen Steinhauer

The Russia House by John le Carré

The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer

The Confession by Olen Steinhauer

36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer

Post-WW2 Espionage and Crime Fiction

109 books — 21 voters

Anna Karenina by Tom Stoppard

Voyage by Tom Stoppard

Shipwreck by Tom Stoppard

Salvage by Tom Stoppard

The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

Best of Tom Stoppard

66 books — 4 voters

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett

Macbeth the King by Nigel Tranter

Macbeth (English National Opera Guides, 41) by Giuseppe Verdi

42 books — 14 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

100 Best Novels in (English) Translation, from the guide by Boyd Tonkin

100 books — 25 voters

Rob Roy by Walter Scott

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Dr. 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 Ondaatje

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century

650 books — 304 voters

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

2,397 books — 5,004 voters

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Night Soldiers by Alan Furst

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

Exodus by Leon Uris

WWII Historic Fiction

1,489 books — 1,569 voters

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

483 books — 857 voters

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Crabwalk by Günter Grass

Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

A WWII Reading List

724 books — 384 voters

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Pure by Andrew Miller

Paris: historical novels set in Paris

58 books — 12 voters

Ice Road by Gillian Slovo

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

Crabwalk by Günter Grass

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

Best WWII Fiction and Biography

702 books — 585 voters

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

Catholic Fiction

549 books — 432 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Tis Pity She's a Whore by Derek Roper

Cloud Nine by James M. Cain

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

1,778 books — 2,641 voters

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)

585 books — 401 voters

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