Top Retellings of Classic Tales

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Roger (8 Lists)



The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Most Interesting Magic System
2,611 books — 8,703 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
561 books — 542 voters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJaws by Peter BenchleyBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Client by John Grisham
The Movie was actually Better than the book
138 books — 123 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,867 books — 7,000 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,575 books — 13,084 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,734 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books that are related to J.D. Salinger in someway
51 books — 34 voters
Cryptonomicon by Neal StephensonJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchNine Princes in Amber by Roger ZelaznyThe Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
Science Fiction and Fantasy Must Reads
3,910 books — 4,916 voters