Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2480507-r-s">R. S.</a> (31 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by R. S. (31 Lists)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

To Build a Fire by Jack London

Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics

174 books — 89 voters

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

467 books — 1,162 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Mort by Terry Pratchett

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Fantasy Books That Will Make You Laugh

300 books — 284 voters

Critical Failures by Robert Bevan

Dungeons & Dragons Fiction

29 books — 8 voters

The Bog People by P.V. Glob

Northern Mists; Prehistoric Europe;The Archaeological Imagination

218 books — 40 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Classic Adventure - 1850-1950

42 books — 7 voters

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic Adventure Fiction

32 books — 16 voters

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,982 voters

Born Free by Joy Adamson

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Adult Nonfiction Animal Books

606 books — 150 voters

The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 1 by Jacob Grimm

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Odyssey by Homer

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Most Influential Fantasy & Sci-fi

109 books — 6 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

31,186 books — 117,790 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,168 books — 11,097 voters

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books Under 200 Pages

817 books — 405 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies

2,038 books — 11,614 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads

647 books — 1,260 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Fantasy Classics

298 books — 572 voters

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy

381 books — 365 voters

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Great "Dog" Books

1,248 books — 1,933 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Intimidating books I long to read/finish

132 books — 250 voters

Selected Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best Books About Ancient Rome

731 books — 1,075 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

القرآن الكريم by Anonymous

Magna Carta by J.C. Holt

The Most Influential Books

1,479 books — 5,280 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Best Tortured Heroes in Fiction

779 books — 796 voters

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

World Without End by Ken Follett

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Best Historical Fiction

7,250 books — 25,374 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Books that Made You Cry!

3,205 books — 7,755 voters

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

White Fang by Jack London

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Best Books About Animals

1,839 books — 1,857 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,788 books — 49,735 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Best Young Adult Books

12,988 books — 80,067 voters

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,106 books — 25,563 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Best Books Ever

74,780 books — 277,459 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Popular Books that Annoy You

1,033 books — 2,015 voters

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