Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/88991-mark-desrosiers">Mark Desrosiers</a> (30 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mark Desrosiers (30 Lists)

A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox by John Frush Knox

The Partisan by John A. Jenkins

Supreme Court fanatics

77 books — 26 voters

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1 by Peter Bagge

Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman

Peepshow by Joe Matt

Talking 'Bout My Generation...

581 books — 444 voters

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon

The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Favorite Travel Books

2,021 books — 3,941 voters

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,985 voters

The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash

Part of Our Time by Murray Kempton

The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer

Best American History Books

2,124 books — 2,495 voters

The Scar by China Miéville

Unusual, Alternative Vampires

435 books — 580 voters

Day by A.L. Kennedy

World War II Fiction

1,393 books — 2,023 voters

Making It Big by Chi Chi Larue

A Drink With Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke

Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs

704 books — 1,055 voters

George and Martha by James Marshall

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.

Best Children's Books

5,307 books — 6,706 voters

Paradise by A.L. Kennedy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Day by A.L. Kennedy

Other People by Martin Amis

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

8,032 books — 6,078 voters

From Hell by Alan Moore

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,561 books — 18,686 voters

And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney

726 books — 608 voters

Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Experience by Martin Amis

Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,827 books — 6,352 voters

Burr by Gore Vidal

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

Best Historical Fiction

7,409 books — 25,590 voters

The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher

The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson

Organic, Inc. by Samuel Fromartz

Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

Food-Related Non-Fiction

1,227 books — 1,636 voters

The Homeric Hymns by Homer

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Hermes the Thief by Norman O. Brown

Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde

Best Books About Mythology

1,395 books — 2,218 voters

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes

843 books — 897 voters

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs

Dino by Nick Tosches

Turn the Beat Around by Peter Shapiro

The Dirt by Tommy Lee

Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad

Best Non Fiction About Music

1,443 books — 1,344 voters

The Wrong Case by James Crumley

The Dream Songs by John Berryman

The Complete Poems by Hart Crane

Shawnie by Ed Trewavas

Paradise by A.L. Kennedy

Drunken Masters

281 books — 376 voters

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

1,218 books — 2,747 voters

Paradise by A.L. Kennedy

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,833 books — 21,968 voters

The Most of S.J. Perelman by S.J. Perelman

Our Dumb Century by Scott Dikkers

Money by Martin Amis

Premillennial Maakies by Tony Millionaire

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Best Humorous Books

4,331 books — 7,912 voters

Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi Serafini

BJ and Da Dogs by Ben Jones

Paper Rad by Paper Rad

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes

Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright

Weirdest Books Ever

1,193 books — 1,184 voters

From Hell by Alan Moore

Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

BJ and Da Dogs by Ben Jones

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Best Graphic Novels

3,450 books — 6,766 voters

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

Herbert West by H.P. Lovecraft

The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK

1,134 books — 10,099 voters

Poems Seven by Alan Dugan

The Dream Songs by John Berryman

The Complete Poems by Hart Crane

The Complete English Poems by John Donne

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

Best Poetry Books

2,983 books — 2,424 voters

Paradise by A.L. Kennedy

Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

War Nerd by Gary Brecher

Best Books of 2008

1,632 books — 6,780 voters

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins

V. by Thomas Pynchon

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Worst Books of All Time

8,105 books — 19,873 voters

Money by Martin Amis

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Dream Songs by John Berryman

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,782 voters