A Decade of Hit Books

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



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Disappointing Books
2,777 books — 4,671 voters
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,417 books — 8,206 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
World's Greatest Novellas
739 books — 1,484 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books Most Likely to Create Hatred of English Literature
57 books — 91 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,881 voters
Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeVenus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
242 books — 209 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,095 books — 630 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1001 Books I Have Already Read
523 books — 459 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 284 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Best British and Irish Literature
1,185 books — 1,120 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Red and the Black by StendhalBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Best French Literature
829 books — 1,578 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,729 books — 13,307 voters