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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter Spaulding (10 Lists)



The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerOthello by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
74,931 books — 277,878 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
299 books — 225 voters

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,936 books — 1,870 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor HugoInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,576 books — 13,097 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyA Time to Kill by John Grisham
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,252 books — 2,422 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,670 voters

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniFreedom by Jonathan FranzenThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,019 voters
The History of Love by Nicole KraussNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,224 books — 28,363 voters

The River Why by David James Duncan
Best Environmental Books
1,064 books — 1,190 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,738 voters