Top Retellings of Classic Tales

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Arthur Chappell (626 Lists)



Poetry Slum by Sandra BondWarning Light Calling by Peter Graarup WestergaardFive Denials on Merlin's Grave by Robin WilliamsonAbou Ben Adhem by Leigh HuntThe Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Science Fiction Horror And Fantasy Poetry
48 books — 3 voters
There's Treasure Everywhere by Bill WattersonMiss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph SlateDreams of the Sea by Élisabeth VonarburgThe Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics by Iain McLeanThe Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl
Books From 1996
79 books — 3 voters

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Classic Adventure Novels
69 books — 23 voters
Coraline by Neil GaimanThe Shining by Stephen King
Scary Book Covers
168 books — 72 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanLord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar WildeA Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftSocrates' Defence by PlatoThe Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 204 voters
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
She has no mercy
30 books — 6 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeBarchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeFire Watch by Connie Willis
Cathedrals in Fiction
76 books — 8 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsJamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierThe Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
Best Books with Terrible Movies
33 books — 15 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Books Banned by Nazis
101 books — 27 voters
Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Glasgow
50 books — 32 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Lonesome Place by August DerlethYours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert BlochWatch the Sky by James H. SchmitzHandyman by Frank Banta
Books from 1962
40 books — 1 voter
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
sci-fi for people who don't really like sci-fi
12 books — 4 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 355 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonTank Girl by Alan C. MartinWaste Tide by Chen QiufanThe Centauri Device by M. John HarrisonNeuromancer by William Gibson
Cyberpunk And High Tech Microchip Futures
13 books — 2 voters

Sebastian O by Grant MorrisonTime Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider RobinsonCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Blithe Spirit by Noël CowardThe Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett
Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy And Horror 2
24 books — 3 voters
Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnellGarth Marenghi's Incarcerat by Garth MarenghiA Stroke of the Pen by Terry PratchettLove Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnellGarth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi
Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy And Horror
103 books — 3 voters

Dirty Old Mad by William M. GainesSing Along With Mad by Frank JacobsMAD's Don Martin Forges Ahead by Don MartinMad Strikes Back! by Wallace WoodThe Portable Mad by MAD Magazine
Best MAD Magazine Books
146 books — 19 voters
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
An orphan girl arrives and changes everything
16 books — 5 voters

Planet of the Apes by Pierre BoulleA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
New World, New Language
12 books — 5 voters
THE DAILY MIRROR BOOK OF GARTH [Cover Title] by Frank BellamyThe Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey CampbellIncubus by Ray RussellOrissor - Is the Way for All by Dorothy FosbrookePebbles on the Beach by Ronnie Barker
1976 Books Written In This Year
66 books — 1 voter

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose BierceLair of the White Worm by Bram StokerThe Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter
Best of 1911
67 books — 26 voters
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Fiction set at universities
38 books — 7 voters

The Shining by Stephen KingAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Inverted World by Christopher PriestThe Gradual by Christopher Priest
Unreliable Settings
15 books — 7 voters
On the Beach by Nevil ShuteG-r-r-r...! by Roger ArcotGrove of the Unborn by Lyn VenableWhat's He Doing in There? by Fritz LeiberNow We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley
Best Books 1957
147 books — 39 voters

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha ChristieThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
My favourite Agatha Christie books
16 books — 3 voters
Children of the Corn by Stephen KingCrossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt WhitmanLord of the Flies by William GoldingDamien by Joseph HowardThe Omen by David Seltzer
Evil Children In Literature
8 books — 2 voters

Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories by Ian WatsonThe Mammoth Book of Steampunk by Sean WallaceThe Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics by Paul GravettMammoth Book Of Seriously Comic Fantasy by Mike AshleyThe Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley
Mammoth Press Books
11 books — 1 voter
The Test by Theodore ThomasChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteAraminta and the Automobile by Charles Battell LoomisX Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber
Cars In Literature
20 books — 5 voters

The Untouchables by Eliot NessThe Godfather by Mario PuzoSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Valachi Papers by Peter MaasMy Life in the Mafia by Vincent Charles Teresa
Best Mafia Books
237 books — 352 voters
The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
Reject Society, Live in the Woods
96 books — 12 voters


« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 20 21