Big Books of Summer

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
417 books — 492 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,047 books — 3,959 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Trevor Noah's Literary Guests
266 books — 87 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,938 books — 4,115 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesA Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 176 voters
Just Mercy by Bryan StevensonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningAbolition For The People by Colin KaepernickThe Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko
Inside the Criminal Justice System
159 books — 49 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Books for Post-Election Understanding
199 books — 141 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy2666 by Roberto BolañoButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Hip Opinions
313 books — 116 voters