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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Justin Evans (14 Lists)



The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilRemembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustMoby Dick by Herman Melville
Best Philosophical Fiction
302 books — 548 voters
The Luminaries by Eleanor CattonThe People in the Trees by Hanya YanagiharaSatin Island by Tom McCarthyA Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Great Book Covers
726 books — 108 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Human Stain by Philip RothAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothOn the Road by Jack KerouacSexus by Henry Miller
"...if _______ is not the book version of everything horrible and unjust that the patriarchy stands for, I do not know what is."
170 books — 94 voters
I Hotel by Karen Tei YamashitaDarkmans by Nicola BarkerThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófThe Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus by Christine Brooke-RoseLa Medusa by Vanessa Place
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters

The Recognitions by William GaddisV. by Thomas PynchonThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence SterneLibra by Don DeLillo
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 582 voters
Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
The Shandian Spawn
169 books — 49 voters

The Cantos by Ezra PoundA Heart So White by Javier MaríasPoison, Shadow, and Farewell by Javier MaríasFever and Spear by Javier MaríasDance and Dream by Javier Marías
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 178 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraMiddlemarch by George EliotA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyBleak House by Charles Dickens
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,810 voters

Summa Theologica by Thomas AquinasPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelNegative Dialectics by Theodor W. AdornoBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerDas Kapital by Karl Marx
Best World Philosophy Book
957 books — 1,422 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonJ R by William Gaddis
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,936 books — 1,870 voters

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Thickest Books Ever
890 books — 2,494 voters
Das Nibelungenlied by UnknownThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Cantos by Ezra Pound
Best of Epic Poetry
122 books — 200 voters

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
The Worst Books of All Time
8,178 books — 19,864 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
World War II Fiction
1,274 books — 1,974 voters