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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Aaron Boisvert (82 Lists)



Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Best Books of 1983
282 books — 164 voters
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
Best Books of 1981
326 books — 159 voters

The Aeneid by Virgil
Best Books About Ancient Rome
732 books — 1,077 voters
The Bat-Poet by Randall JarrellThe Saskiad by Brian HallI Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,161 books — 764 voters

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Children's Picture Books With Beautiful Illustrations
2,138 books — 1,298 voters
Blindness by José SaramagoAngels in America by Tony KushnerA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Books for a Pandemic
699 books — 577 voters

The Histories by Herodotus
Best History Books
3,639 books — 3,670 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandAnthem by Ayn Rand
1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read
965 books — 868 voters

Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας by Roberto CalassoThe Devils of Loudun by Aldous HuxleyThe Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrament... by The Episcopal ChurchThe Zürau Aphorisms by Franz KafkaThe Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
Books That Changed My Mind
335 books — 432 voters
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Medicine and Literature
1,833 books — 1,989 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,738 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienTill We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Best of Mythic Fiction
681 books — 707 voters

The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 Vols ... by Herbert Coleridge
Best Dictionaries of the English Language
97 books — 82 voters
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Favorite Christian Books
1,876 books — 1,350 voters

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
7 books — 69 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Saskiad by Brian Hall
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,523 books — 11,149 voters

A Voice from the Attic by Robertson DavisReading and Writing by Robertson Davies
Books about Books
1,378 books — 1,515 voters
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Circus/Carnival Books
702 books — 1,080 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe Discarded Image by C.S. LewisA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanCathedral by David Macaulay
Best Middle Ages Books
1,220 books — 1,680 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 171 voters

The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
Books for Teachers/Educators
780 books — 616 voters
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Books with Seance Scenes
67 books — 40 voters

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeEmile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters
The Devils of Loudun by Aldous HuxleyThe Once and Future King by T.H. White
Waring School Books: All Time Smackdown!
50 books — 38 voters

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks
Best Nonfiction about Comics
414 books — 105 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 773 voters

The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast by Robert C. DuncanThe Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat
Sailing Cruising
279 books — 196 voters
The Saskiad by Brian HallThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillipLeaven of Malice by Robertson DaviesWinter's Tale by Mark HelprinOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books you never wanted to end.
368 books — 270 voters

Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Retro Reads
163 books — 133 voters
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,111 books — 25,579 voters