Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/949843-phillip-edwards">Phillip Edwards</a> (1433 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Phillip Edwards (1433 Lists)

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

The Liar by Stephen Fry

Books with the words lie/liar/liars/lying in the title

464 books — 35 voters

How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Double Talk - Repeating Titles

7 books — 2 voters

The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Super... by Wendy Jones

FICTION: Funeral-based jobs (Mortician, Funeral Director, Undertaker, etc)

39 books — 16 voters

Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park

The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

Your Top 5 Reads in 2018

644 books — 263 voters

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

For Your Own Good by Alice Miller

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

When We Rise by Cleve Jones

Non-fiction with average rating greater than 4.2 with more than 1000 votes

56 books — 31 voters

Milkman by Anna Burns

Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

2019 Tournament of Books Shortlist

18 books — 130 voters

War with the Newts by Karel Čapek

R.U.R. by Karel Čapek

Logan's Run by William F. Nolan

Scifi without spaceships

6 books — 2 voters

I Am Sovereign by Nicola Barker

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Spring by Ali Smith

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Machines like Me by Ian McEwan

Can't Wait Books of 2019

1,500 books — 3,371 voters

Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles

All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal

They Killed The Cat... a cautionary list

84 books — 17 voters

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Inuit Literature

10 books — 4 voters

The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower

Shitstorm by Fernando Sdrigotti

Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach

Fucking Martin by Dale Peck

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits.

258 books — 33 voters

Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

Espedair Street by Iain Banks

Educating Peter by Tom Cox

The Cello by James Riordan

Novels about Musicians or Instruments

39 books — 4 voters

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Books with 2+ Color /Colour Words in Their Titles

94 books — 12 voters

The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers

Missing persons/disappearance/absence

203 books — 48 voters

The Library Book by Rebecca Gray

The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle

NonFiction Books About Libraries and Librarians

64 books — 16 voters

Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor

Hold Everything Dear by John Berger

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

1,142 books — 40 voters

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Books with actors\actresses in the title

27 books — 5 voters

St Agnes' Stand by Thomas Eidson

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Best Frontier Literature

109 books — 34 voters

The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

430 books — 38 voters

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

Space Odyssey by Michael Benson

2001 - A Space Odyssey

17 books — 5 voters

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

You Can Save Only One . . .

10 books — 13 voters

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Vintage and Classic YA/MG

93 books — 14 voters

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Great Black Read

44 books — 11 voters

Everyone Is Watching by Megan Bradbury

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Historical Fiction - New York

173 books — 60 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott

The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr

Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

Books with the Senses in the Title

392 books — 23 voters

How to Forget by Marius Brill

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

Books with Memory in the Title

215 books — 18 voters

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov

The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

Books with Lost or Found in the Title

1,076 books — 53 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

1984 by George Orwell

A Century of Reading: 1940s

62 books — 11 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Century of Reading: 1930s

53 books — 8 voters

The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll

The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

The Lost Library by Tom Cardamone

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane

341 books — 36 voters

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