Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2482609-captain-sir-roddy-r-n-ret">Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)</a> (28 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) (28 Lists)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Penguin Drop Caps

26 books — 71 voters

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash

The Novellas of John O'Hara by John O'Hara

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

John O'Hara's Hollywood by John O'Hara

The Best Single Author Short Story Collections

367 books — 116 voters

The New York Stories of Henry James by Henry James

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton

Old New York by Edith Wharton

Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay

Inter-Connected Short Stories

218 books — 80 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Everyman Library Classics

174 books — 96 voters

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Emma by Jane Austen

The English/British Novels {Fiction} Part 1

150 books — 45 voters

The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel

The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel

The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel

The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel

Best Pre-History Fiction

195 books — 372 voters

The Iliad by Homer

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Odyssey by Homer

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Everyman's Library 100 Essentials

103 books — 151 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Beowulf by Unknown

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Best Middle Ages Books

1,219 books — 1,679 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels

4,402 books — 18,080 voters

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

Most influential books under 100 pages

250 books — 925 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

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

What we've read so far in 2012...

5,564 books — 768 voters

Gettysburg by Noah Andre Trudeau

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears

The Gettysburg Campaign by Edwin B. Coddington

Gettysburg July 1 by David G. Martin

The Maps of Gettysburg by Bradley M. Gottfried

Battle of Gettysburg Books (nonfiction)

77 books — 67 voters

The Civil War by Shelby Foote

The Gettysburg Campaign by Edwin B. Coddington

Freedom by William Safire

Shenandoah 1862 by Peter Cozzens

Vicksburg 1863 by Winston Groom

Best American Civil War Books

998 books — 975 voters

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

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

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies

2,038 books — 11,614 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Iliad by Homer

The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

The Complete Poems by John Keats

Best Poetry Books

2,960 books — 2,410 voters

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,106 books — 25,563 voters

Middlemarch by George Eliot

358 books — 51 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Classic French Literature

345 books — 256 voters

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Best Jane Austen Novels

20 books — 477 voters

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian

Best Historical Fiction

7,250 books — 25,374 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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

I Wish I Could Read it Again for the First Time

10,996 books — 7,208 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,705 books — 6,853 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature

304 books — 399 voters

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Complete Poems by John Keats

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Best British and Irish Literature

1,178 books — 1,111 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

766 books — 1,133 voters

Emma by Jane Austen

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

best books of all time!!!

194 books — 34 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Best Russian Literature

510 books — 2,273 voters

Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Best Series Books

737 books — 686 voters