Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1895570-jim">Jim</a> (224 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jim (224 Lists)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medea by Euripides

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Novels about Motherhood

384 books — 195 voters

The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set by Steven Runciman

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell

Religion Gone Too Far

173 books — 96 voters

Far Away and Long Ago by William Henry Hudson

Uttermost Part of the Earth by Lucas Bridges

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Coming-of-Age Memoirs

235 books — 162 voters

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Best Books of the Decade: 1840s

277 books — 379 voters

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes by Arthur Rimbaud

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

258 books — 343 voters

Oh! A mystery of mono no aware by Todd Shimoda

Night by Elie Wiesel

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Titles of Only One Syllable

755 books — 136 voters

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov

The Luneburg Variation by Paolo Maurensig

Gods, Men and Ghosts by Lord Dunsany

Pawn to Infinity by Fred Saberhagen

Chess-themed Fiction

103 books — 137 voters

Washington Square by Henry James

Best Romances With Spinsters, Wallflowers, Or Old Maids

473 books — 865 voters

Twelfth Night or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraor... by Mark Twain

Best Books About Twins

451 books — 362 voters

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

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

100+ Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read

242 books — 445 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

765 books — 1,133 voters

The History of Our World Beyond the Wave by R.E. Klein

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Oceans, Water, Ice

714 books — 170 voters

The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac

The Masterpiece by Émile Zola

The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

In a Painter's Studio

130 books — 38 voters

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

Why I Write by George Orwell

The Art of Readable Writing by Alan J. Gould

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera

Best Books on Writing

792 books — 1,325 voters

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

Everyman by Philip Roth

Jews in Literature

876 books — 310 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Excellent Books about India and England

279 books — 268 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Histories by Herodotus

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History as Literature

727 books — 535 voters

The Valley of the Kings by Cecelia Holland

A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Archaeology Novels

222 books — 95 voters

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

The Upanishads by Anonymous

The Dhammapada by Anonymous

The Analects by Confucius

Best Holy Books

268 books — 530 voters

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov

Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen

Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

10,129 books — 2,688 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek

1,252 books — 379 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

London by Peter Ackroyd

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

Nana by Émile Zola

Washington Square by Henry James

315 books — 186 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

205 books — 30 voters

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Life by Georges Perec

Classic French Literature

344 books — 255 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Books That Quote or Reference Other Works In The Title

366 books — 85 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Collector by John Fowles

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Disturbingly Enticing

498 books — 198 voters

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

The Violent Land by Jorge Amado

Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha

Gabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge Amado

The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago

Best Literature in Portuguese

476 books — 484 voters

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics

497 books — 607 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Best Alternate History

352 books — 680 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Sidekicks Carry The Story

60 books — 41 voters

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