Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/882489-bobandy">BoBandy</a> (11 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by BoBandy (11 Lists)

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Best Southern Gothic Literature

349 books — 517 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along

2,042 books — 5,316 voters

Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu

Fiction from the Chinese Mainland

154 books — 138 voters

Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu

Best Novels That Take Place in China

434 books — 1,108 voters

Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Best Dysfunctional Family Novels

178 books — 100 voters

John's Wife by Robert Coover

254 books — 250 voters

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

A Bitter Pill -- Pessimistic Books

14 books — 6 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Most Difficult Novels

600 books — 2,064 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,833 books — 22,386 voters

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

What Book Got You Hooked?

4,002 books — 10,885 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1984 by George Orwell

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,817 books — 49,852 voters