Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Scott Holstad (22 Lists)



1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Stand by Stephen King
Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
458 books — 1,293 voters
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiThe Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles BukowskiSeptuagenarian Stew by Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals by Charles BukowskiMockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
104 books — 4 voters

The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiThe Holy Bible by AnonymousHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiComing Out Straight by Richard CohenSnuff by Chuck Palahniuk
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,241 books — 11,462 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Business Biographies
74 books — 279 voters

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,140 books — 1,544 voters
Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,440 books — 1,350 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSnow Crash by Neal StephensonNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,793 books — 26,053 voters
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheTwilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ by Friedrich NietzscheThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Atheism: Most Profund Works on Disbelief
99 books — 67 voters

The Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best History Books
3,759 books — 3,793 voters
Life by Keith RichardsHammer of the Gods by Stephen DavisRip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon ReynoldsPaul McCartney by Peter Ames CarlinContents Under Pressure by Martin Popoff
Best Books on Rock and Roll
895 books — 1,279 voters

Old Man's War by John ScalziDune by Frank HerbertStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsOn Basilisk Station by David Weber
Excellent Space Opera
1,061 books — 3,727 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads
671 books — 1,287 voters

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Quality Dark Fiction
2,535 books — 3,249 voters
Atomic Awakening by James Mahaffey
Nuclear Science Studies
118 books — 21 voters

The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Books on Leadership
202 books — 135 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsoniWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon by Steve Wozniak
Top Business Biographies
96 books — 33 voters

Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonThe Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford StollHackers by Steven LevyGhost in the Wires by Kevin D. MitnickElon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Silicon Valley History
237 books — 436 voters
Winter Is Coming by Garry KasparovThe Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael PillsburyEasternization by Gideon RachmanA World in Disarray by Richard N. HaassDawn of Eurasia by Bruno Maçães
Geopolitics
192 books — 44 voters

On China by Henry KissingerHow Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
The Future is Asian
79 books — 10 voters
Hiroshima by John HerseyWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanThe Art of War by Sun Tzu
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,159 books — 2,433 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickNeuromancer by William GibsonDune by Frank HerbertHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
85 books — 1,615 voters
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiThe Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles BukowskiMockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense by Charles BukowskiThe Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
The Best of Charles Bukowski
30 books — 117 voters