Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Coalbanks (22 Lists)



The Hypnotist by Lars KeplerRedemption Road by John Hart
Detective Fiction
1,205 books — 1,092 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Jungle by Upton SinclairMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Most Influential Books
1,462 books — 5,289 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHiroshima by John Hersey
Best History Books
3,759 books — 3,793 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Must Read World War II Military History - European Theater of Operations (nonfiction)
312 books — 116 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Middle Ages Books
1,231 books — 1,715 voters
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Sailing Cruising
281 books — 199 voters

Haunted by Chuck PalahniukAnimal Farm by George OrwellIn Search of Bill Clinton by John D. GartnerPeeled by Joan BauerThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Best Covers
612 books — 288 voters
Davy by Edgar Pangborn
Best Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic YA Fiction
347 books — 750 voters

He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum
Murder Most Cold
238 books — 398 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeRoots by Alex HaleyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Historical Fiction
7,492 books — 25,685 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,236 books — 8,067 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,551 books — 24,869 voters

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Worst Ending
269 books — 561 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Hobbit by Chuck DixonAsterix the Gaul by René Goscinny300 by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,452 books — 6,772 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Books We Like About Characters We Hate
35 books — 28 voters
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámThe Trojan Women by EuripidesRamayana by VālmīkiThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 106 voters

Watership Down by Richard AdamsOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLord of the Flies by William GoldingAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
LOST Book Club
80 books — 119 voters
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by Norman Davis the lateA Man for All Seasons by Robert BoltPaston Letters And Papers Of The Fifteenth Century by Norman DavisPrivate Life in the Fifteenth Century by Roger Virgoe
Best Books About Tudor England
614 books — 1,635 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoL'École des Femmes by MolièreCandide by Voltaire
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,873 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Jungle by Upton SinclairIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonA Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara VineThe Alienist by Caleb CarrRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,337 books — 15,831 voters