Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/44437188-david">David</a> (27 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by David (27 Lists)

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Fitzcarraldo Editions

148 books — 38 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Short Story Collections

1,552 books — 851 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Nobel Prize Contenders

77 books — 65 voters

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century

47 books — 38 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut's Best

37 books — 632 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Queer Adult Fiction by Authors of Color

148 books — 42 voters

The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik

Random House Spring 2021 Preview

30 books — 11 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Great American Novel

666 books — 1,088 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

1,362 books — 1,487 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Penguin Modern Classics

411 books — 483 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,651 books — 25,852 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

742 books — 398 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García

164 books — 172 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet

745 books — 1,810 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Watchmen by Alan Moore

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postmodern Genius

506 books — 582 voters

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,251 books — 24,495 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Most Difficult Novels

583 books — 2,040 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Collections of Short Stories

2,882 books — 2,036 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,576 books — 13,086 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

1,867 books — 7,000 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

14,453 books — 16,029 voters

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer

125 books — 223 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Historical Fiction

7,249 books — 25,373 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Southern Literature

1,331 books — 2,573 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Best Fantasy World

1,635 books — 2,021 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

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

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,106 books — 25,563 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Best Books Ever

74,780 books — 277,434 voters