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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by David Winger (28 Lists)



Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Non-England historical fiction
565 books — 70 voters
Navigatio by Patrick Holland
Challenging Religious Fiction
205 books — 73 voters

Navigatio by Patrick Holland
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,121 books — 1,793 voters
Navigatio by Patrick HollandShanghai Dancing by Brian CastroThe Plains by Gerald Murnane
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

Night Watch by Terry PratchettGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettThe Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. KochThe Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,353 books — 15,958 voters
Night Watch by Terry PratchettGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettMort by Terry PratchettThe Fifth Elephant by Terry PratchettThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Best of Discworld!
87 books — 993 voters

Greenmantle by John BuchanThe Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Best prewar spy thrillers
24 books — 20 voters
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Best Clean Thrillers and Adventures
71 books — 15 voters

Greenmantle by John Buchan
"Crime" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
148 books — 136 voters
Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
Best books on Japan
68 books — 45 voters

Highways to a War by Christopher J. KochThe Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. KochShanghai Dancing by Brian CastroThe Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Books on Asia
998 books — 827 voters
Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
Best Books About Japan
517 books — 358 voters

The Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Essential Man's Library
327 books — 123 voters
Shadow Country by Peter MatthiessenThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron HansenThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyCities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

How A Moth Becomes A Boat by Josephine RoweRansom by David MaloufThe Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandThe Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick HollandCarpentaria by Alexis Wright
Modern Australian Library
151 books — 34 voters
How A Moth Becomes A Boat by Josephine RoweLight Action in the Caribbean by Barry LopezThe Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayWinter Count by Barry Lopez
Collections of Short Stories
2,900 books — 2,043 voters

The Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland
Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia
316 books — 335 voters
The Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandOblivion by Patrick Holland
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 176 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne by Patrick Holland
Best Westerns
1,385 books — 1,520 voters
The Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandOblivion by Patrick Holland
Cambodia and Vietnam
217 books — 162 voters

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Foreign Lands
2,367 books — 2,200 voters
Here Comes Civilization by William TennImmodest Proposals by William Tenn
Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books
614 books — 1,190 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleScoop by Evelyn WaughHere Comes Civilization by William TennImmodest Proposals by William Tenn
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,428 books — 2,345 voters
The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick HollandOblivion by Patrick Holland
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,856 books — 22,169 voters

The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick HollandFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
It Should Have Won an Award
58 books — 60 voters
The Source Of Sound by Senior Lecturer in Human Re...The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard by Elmore LeonardSelected Short Stories by Guy de MaupassantFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Best Short Story Collections
1,555 books — 860 voters

Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick HollandIn Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinThe Promise of Iceland by Kári Gíslason
Favorite Travel Books
2,031 books — 3,943 voters
The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick HollandThe Darkest Little Room by Patrick HollandThe Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. KochOblivion by Patrick Holland
Best Modern Australian Literature
562 books — 671 voters