Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5737008-paul-secor">Paul Secor</a> (22 Lists)

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Best Poems of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

Blackbird Dust by Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively

Great Book Covers

726 books — 108 voters

Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Pack of Cards and Other Stories by Penelope Lively

The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

The Way That Water Enters Stone by John Dufresne

Signs of a Migrant Worrier by Douglas Woolf

Best Short Story Collections

1,552 books — 851 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Chill by Ross Macdonald

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Erasure by Percival Everett

The Great American Novel

666 books — 1,088 voters

Kingdom by James Hanley

History of the Rain by Niall Williams

The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

There but for the by Ali Smith

Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,403 books — 8,327 voters

There but for the by Ali Smith

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

Your Top 5 Favorite Books of all Time - Adult Fiction.

341 books — 124 voters

History of the Rain by Niall Williams

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy by Shelby Foote

The Way It Wasn't by James Laughlin

Blackbird Dust by Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

The Elsewhere Community by Hugh Kenner

Books about Books

1,378 books — 1,515 voters

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

World According to Sempé by Jean-Jacques Sempé

Books that Make you Laugh

3,487 books — 5,028 voters

American painting by Jules David Prown

Jazzplakate = by Niklaus Troxler

Just one rating

599 books — 57 voters

The Notebooks of Captain Georges by Jean Renoir

The Manner Music by Charles Reznikoff

REALLY, Really Underrated Books (Fewer than 100 Ratings)

1,562 books — 239 voters

The Fifty-Two Clerihews of Clara Hughes by Jonathan Williams

The Great Fake Book by Vance Bourjaily

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Best Book Titles

11,254 books — 7,562 voters

Erasure by Percival Everett

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Damned If I Do by Percival Everett

Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John Dufresne

Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century

184 books — 213 voters

Signs of a Migrant Worrier by Douglas Woolf

The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Indian Tales by W.P. Kinsella

Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez

Damned If I Do by Percival Everett

The Gold Diggers by Robert Creeley

Short Story Collections You Must Read

151 books — 54 voters

The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport

The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art by Guy Davenport

Testimony by Charles Renznikoff

Testimony by Charles Reznikoff

The Manner Music by Charles Reznikoff

Library of America Wish List

86 books — 25 voters

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards

The Manner Music by Charles Reznikoff

By the Sound by Ed Dorn

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Notebooks of Captain Georges by Jean Renoir

Authors With Only One Novel

133 books — 120 voters

Treat It Gentle by Sidney Bechet

In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz by Donald M. Marquis

Bass Line by Milt Hinton

Dance Of The Infidels by Francis Paudras

The Jazz People of New Orleans by Lee Friedlander

Books on Jazz (nonfiction)

231 books — 66 voters

Treat It Gentle by Sidney Bechet

In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz by Donald M. Marquis

Charles Ives by Jan Swafford

The Musicians by Jean-Jacques Sempé

Best Non Fiction About Music

1,411 books — 1,330 voters

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Bound to Please by Michael Dirda

Readings by Michael Dirda

Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

1,029 books — 511 voters

Walker Evans by Gilles Mora

Swing Era New York by W. Royal Stokes

To the manor born by Mary Lloyd Estrin

Disfarmer by Julia Scully

Exceptional Photography Books*

527 books — 193 voters

Ya! & John-Juan by Douglas Woolf

Gringos and Other Stories by Michael Rumaker

The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald

Collected Stories, 1939-1976 by Paul Bowles

The Collected Poems of George Oppen by George Oppen

Sorrentino's Syllabus

60 books — 31 voters

The Collected Poems, Vol. 1 by William Carlos Williams

Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski

For Love by Robert Creeley

Plum Poems by Ross Feld

Best Poetry Books

2,960 books — 2,410 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Great Books of Southern Fiction

379 books — 441 voters

Rampart Street by David Fulmer

Nine Lives by Dan Baum

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz by Donald M. Marquis

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery by John Gregory Brown

Best New Orleans Books

421 books — 346 voters