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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Wayne (12 Lists)



The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchristThe Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Top 10 books about human consciousness
13 books — 5 voters
The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist
Consciousness, Mind and Physics
31 books — 8 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,236 books — 9,262 voters
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron RalstonTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
Books of Adventure and Survival
66 books — 69 voters

Annapurna by Maurice HerzogNo Way Down by Graham Bowley
Worshipping Mountains
173 books — 71 voters
Touching the Void by Joe SimpsonAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice HerzogThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerNo Way Down by Graham BowleySavage Summit by Jennifer Jordan
Climbing and Mountaineering
219 books — 174 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Best Adventure Travel Memoir
303 books — 313 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonA Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
Vicarious Thrills
424 books — 451 voters

Broad Peak by Richard SaleThe Ghosts of K2 by Mick ConefreyKangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak by Charles EvansNanga Parbat by Karl M. HerrligkofferAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Himalayan First Ascents (English)
14 books — 2 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books With Beautiful Prose
238 books — 168 voters

Quicksilver by Neal StephensonThe Confusion by Neal StephensonThe System of the World by Neal StephensonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,208 books — 28,382 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoAnimal Farm by George OrwellLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books Ever
79,746 books — 297,101 voters