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)

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Plague by Albert Camus

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

Best Books 1947

65 books — 32 voters

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

Best Books 1946

74 books — 28 voters

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books 1945

58 books — 43 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Owl Service by Alan Garner

The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler

Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick

Things by Georges Perec

Best Books 1967

153 books — 64 voters

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke

Best Books 1951

105 books — 50 voters

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing

Best Books 1950

103 books — 40 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Far Cry by Emma Smith

The Third Man by Graham Greene

Best Books 1949

102 books — 42 voters

Punishments by Francis King

Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)

1,271 books — 167 voters

Punishments by Francis King

Ridiculously Underrated Books (20 Ratings or fewer)

2,041 books — 212 voters

An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

Endurance in Fact and Fiction

94 books — 24 voters

King by John Berger

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The World According to Garp by John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Great "JOHNS" Of Literature.

281 books — 36 voters

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury

Best Books 1959

108 books — 45 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Best Books 1962

143 books — 92 voters

1984 by George Orwell

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

2010 by Arthur C. Clarke

1066 and all that by W.C. Sellar

1900 by Mike Jay

Books with a Year for a Title

209 books — 61 voters

Being There by Jerzy Kosiński

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

Best Movie Adaptations

439 books — 259 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke

The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke

Oceanic/marine science fiction

164 books — 267 voters

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook

At the Jerusalem by Paul Bailey

Trawl by B.S. Johnson

Somerset Maugham Award Winners

110 books — 20 voters

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

491 books — 199 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

151 books — 104 voters

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

IMPAC 2011 Longlist

26 books — 13 voters

Landed by Tim Pears

Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

IMPAC 2012 Longlist

35 books — 31 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Frosty Book Titles

1,416 books — 158 voters

Hinterland by Caroline Brothers

Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles

Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway

Umbrella by Will Self

The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills

Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012

151 books — 269 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie

Curtain by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Most Shocking Agatha Christie Ending

30 books — 75 voters

The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

Best Books 1928

78 books — 28 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Best Books 1961

152 books — 76 voters

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2006 by Matthew Engel

Playfair Cricket Annual by Bill Frindall

Raffles by E.W. Hornung

Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka

Twirlymen by Amol Rajan

238 books — 92 voters

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Unless by Carol Shields

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

"Family & Self" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

147 books — 102 voters

Misery by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

fiction in which the writing of a book features prominently

99 books — 49 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

"State of the Nation" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

135 books — 66 voters

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