Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/82329-jeff">Jeff</a> (32 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jeff (32 Lists)

Five Decembers by James Kestrel

Grifter's Game by Lawrence Block

The Girl with the Long Green Heart by Lawrence Block

Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

Fake I.D. by Jason Starr

Hard Case Crime - Imprint

131 books — 46 voters

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Girl on the Train Read A Likes

180 books — 233 voters

Men, Women and Rattlesnakes by Franklin P. Collier Jr.

Cool Your Jets, Turbo... (1930s)

165 books — 3 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Cane by Jean Toomer

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

764 books — 1,133 voters

Terrible Honesty by Ann Douglas

Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen

1920 by Eric Burns

One Summer by Bill Bryson

Once Upon a Time in New York by Herbert Mitgang

The Roaring Twenties in America (nonfiction)

143 books — 17 voters

Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher

The Summer of Katya by Trevanian

The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Books Set During Summer

18 books — 8 voters

Chasing the Rising Sun by Ted Anthony

White Christmas by Jody Rosen

Danny Boy by Malachy McCourt

Strange Fruit by David Margolick

Louie Louie by Dave Marsh

Books About a Single Song

45 books — 4 voters

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher

Best Coming of Age Stories

1,300 books — 1,130 voters

The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves

Books set in San_Francisco

57 books — 26 voters

The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves

San Francisco Bay Area Fiction

445 books — 337 voters

The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves

The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)

419 books — 169 voters

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

1,375 books — 1,500 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction

700 books — 878 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler

The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1 by Mickey Spillane

Best Hardboiled Crime Novels

110 books — 76 voters

Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swingi... by Shawn Levy

One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson

Best Books on Sixties History (Non-Fiction)

189 books — 42 voters

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña

1,567 books — 2,121 voters

Downtown by Pete Hamill

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler

Low Life by Lucy Sante

A Pickpocket's Tale by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

The Village by John Strausbaugh

50 FAVORITE NEW YORK CITY HISTORY BOOKS CHOSEN BY BOWERY BOYS AND READERS

59 books — 16 voters

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Books I Have No Intention of Reading

1,637 books — 5,994 voters

Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Best of Vintage Contemporaries

55 books — 38 voters

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Books I Regret Reading

2,300 books — 3,225 voters

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson

Uptown Downtown by Dennis Lynds

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Coffee, Tea or Me? by Trudy Baker

Zoomar by Ernie Kovacs

If You Like Mad Men . . .

63 books — 90 voters

The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

Or I'll Dress You in Mourning by Larry Collins

Bullfighting, Tauromachia, Tauromachy

24 books — 15 voters

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado

Gabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge Amado

Tieta by Jorge Amado

Tereza Batista by Jorge Amado

Best Literature in Portuguese

476 books — 488 voters

Till Death Us Do Part by Vincent Bugliosi

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

726 books — 607 voters

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

235 books — 182 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Till Death Us Do Part by Vincent Bugliosi

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

Catch Me If You Can by Jeff Nathanson

The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas

Best True Crime

1,344 books — 1,885 voters

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Detective Fiction

1,187 books — 1,082 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,605 books — 13,134 voters

I Spit on Your Graves by Boris Vian

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Pardon My Body by Dale Bogard

The Worst Books of All Time

8,104 books — 19,875 voters

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