Horror's Greatest Hits

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



An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. PriestleyThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Last Samurai by Helen DeWittRaffles by E.W. HornungBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Jobs, Career, Vocation
667 books — 56 voters
Billy Liar by Keith WaterhouseLost Horizon by James HiltonThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony HopeErewhon by Samuel Butler
Invented Countries
106 books — 47 voters

Brighton Rock by Graham GreeneThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan GarnerHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingOver Sea, Under Stone by Susan CooperThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Rocks and Stones
690 books — 46 voters
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. PierreLittle Hands Clapping by Dan RhodesThe Little White Car by Danuta de RhodesLittle Bits of Baby by Patrick GaleA LITTLE ZIT ON THE SIDE. by Jasper Carrott
Little Books
331 books — 37 voters

Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog by P. Robert SmithRobin Hood of Sherwood Forest by Ann McGovernSnoopy's Christmas Tree by Charles M. SchulzWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Way Through The Woods by Colin Dexter
Trees
140 books — 64 voters
Dance on My Grave by Aidan ChambersBilly Elliot by Melvin BurgessThe Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes St... by Arthur Conan DoyleShall We Dance, Charlie Brown? by Charles M. SchulzChapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey
Dancing
128 books — 55 voters

Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Shell House by Linda NewberyA Month in the Country by J.L. CarrMurder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Archaeology Novels
222 books — 95 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinCatch-22 by Joseph HellerHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William Golding
Newsweek 100 (2009)
100 books — 13 voters

The Crow Road by Iain BanksCatch-22 by Joseph HellerEarthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Best Opening Sentence
219 books — 151 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Birthday Boys by Beryl BainbridgeThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacTouching the Void by Joe SimpsonMad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes
Best Books about the Great Outdoors
339 books — 129 voters

Billy Liar by Keith WaterhouseUncle Mort's North Country by Peter TinniswoodDialogues Of The Dead by Reginald HillGod's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Yorkshire (fiction and nonfiction)
206 books — 91 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessBeing Wrong by Kathryn SchulzThe Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneOn Being Certain by Robert A. Burton
Dishes on the Cover
305 books — 34 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Speckled Band by Arthur Conan DoyleThey Do It With Mirrors by Agatha ChristieThe Three Coffins by John Dickson CarrThe Case of the Constant Suicides by John Dickson Carr
Locked Room Mysteries
150 books — 150 voters
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. JohnsonStation X by Michael SmithThe Zinoviev Letter by Gill BennettElements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Object Lessons by Lorin Stein
Typewriters and Keyboards
158 books — 32 voters

The Marbury Lens by Andrew SmithPlayer One by Douglas Couplandpocket-notebook by Mike ThomasScrewtop Thompson by Magnus MillsBurley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker
Best Book Covers of 2010
182 books — 256 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigCatch-22 by Joseph HellerHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
Men and Mental Illness
111 books — 41 voters

No Way of Telling by Emma SmithLanded by Tim PearsRunt by Niall GriffithsSheepshagger by Niall Griffiths
Books Set in Wales
322 books — 196 voters
Diving Belles by Lucy WoodRough Music by Patrick GaleThe Aerodynamics of Pork by Patrick Gale
Cornwall
207 books — 109 voters

The Innocent by Ian McEwanFuneral in Berlin by Len DeightonFatherland by Robert HarrisLaughter in the Dark by Vladimir NabokovThe Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Berlin
316 books — 187 voters
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa PearceThe Elected Member by Bernice RubensA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Pyjamas
11 books — 8 voters

The Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonNew Grub Street by George GissingThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich BöllTowards the End of the Morning by Michael FraynOnce There Was a War by John Steinbeck
Print Media and Publishing
242 books — 49 voters
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenThe Complete Yes Prime Minister by Jonathan LynnHouse of Cards by Michael DobbsThe Human Factor by Graham GreeneA Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn
Government in Fiction
191 books — 54 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggThe Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwanOld Harry's Game by Andy Hamilton
Sympathy for the Devil
331 books — 318 voters
Status Quo and the Kangaroo by Jon Holmes
Road Signs
126 books — 14 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar WildeTwelve Angry Men by Reginald RoseInherit the Wind by Jerome LawrenceThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Justice
339 books — 30 voters
Rumpole of the Bailey by John MortimerLet the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
In Balance
14 books — 6 voters

Sweet and Sour Labrador by Jasper CarrottThe Little Book of Bad Taste by Karl Shaw
Taste
229 books — 53 voters
The Last Days of Socrates by PlatoHemlock and After by Angus WilsonSparkling Cyanide by Agatha ChristieRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Poison in the Title
393 books — 65 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellNumber9Dream by David Mitchell
David Mitchell
11 books — 106 voters
Little Hands Clapping by Dan RhodesThud! by Terry PratchettSlam by Nick HornbyCrash by J.G. BallardHullabaloo In the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Sounds
652 books — 50 voters