Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alex (12 Lists)



Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,356 books — 25,540 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisAssassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Best American History Books
2,120 books — 2,486 voters

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
162 books — 208 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Son by Philipp MeyerTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Best Westerns
1,373 books — 1,496 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,089 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Holy Bible by AnonymousAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,594 books — 13,124 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides1491 by Charles C. MannBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,841 books — 21,935 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,809 books — 49,782 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Books White People Need to Read
1,303 books — 1,568 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisThe Son by Philipp MeyerClose Range by Annie Proulx
Literary Westerns
283 books — 385 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
European History
787 books — 159 voters
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley
Best Middle Ages Books
1,215 books — 1,693 voters