Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/949843-phillip-edwards">Phillip Edwards</a> (1432 Lists)

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The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

No Way of Telling by Emma Smith

Fall and Winter Reading

203 books — 62 voters

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

No Way of Telling by Emma Smith

Foxy by John Montgomery

Holes by Louis Sachar

Best Kids Books Ever

983 books — 740 voters

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Dubliners by James Joyce

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Best Books of the Decade: 1910s

532 books — 772 voters

Unless by Carol Shields

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,224 books — 28,361 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Candide by Voltaire

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Best Humorous Books

4,286 books — 7,883 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Kallocain by Karin Boye

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

3,651 books — 25,852 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Milkman by Anna Burns

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Booker Prize Winners

60 books — 1,982 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

Great Debut Novels

1,567 books — 1,462 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,190 books — 1,502 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / ... by Muriel Spark

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,351 books — 1,777 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

905 books — 1,249 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose

The Science Book by Peter Tallack

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,830 books — 3,587 voters

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Best Gay Fiction

2,635 books — 3,815 voters

King by John Berger

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Quarantine by Jim Crace

Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,141 books — 3,668 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Book Was Better Than the Movie

1,557 books — 18,704 voters

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

From A to X by John Berger

Counter-Knowledge by Damian Thompson

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Serious Things by Gregory Norminton

Best Books of 2008

1,624 books — 6,782 voters

Holes by Louis Sachar

Best Young Adult Books

12,988 books — 80,063 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Candide by Voltaire

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Best Books Ever

74,779 books — 277,414 voters

Unless by Carol Shields

Landed by Tim Pears

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,850 books — 21,770 voters

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,788 books — 49,735 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,251 books — 24,495 voters

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

938 books — 1,097 voters

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