Big Books of Spring

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Kevin Keyaert (12 Lists)



Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,839 books — 2,236 voters
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans
Dutch Literary Canon
123 books — 93 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinStories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T. PowersSaving the Farm by James T. Powers
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
419 books — 318 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,090 books — 1,239 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,049 books — 1,706 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
2,045 books — 3,950 voters

The Jade Peony by Wayson ChoyIn the Skin of a Lion by Michael OndaatjeCan You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau BadamiRiver Thieves by Michael CrummeyMidnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates
The Canadian Immigrant Experience
92 books — 30 voters
Funny Boy by Shyam SelvaduraiChinaman by Shehan KarunatilakaAnil's Ghost by Michael OndaatjeThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeReef by Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lankan English Fiction
108 books — 122 voters

Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyThe Martian by Andy WeirDaemon by Leinad Zeraus
Best Technothrillers Ever
714 books — 1,047 voters
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism by Martyn PercyHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeOrientalism by Edward W. Said
Colonial and Post-colonial Literature
166 books — 84 voters

Brick Lane by Monica AliWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiThe Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Postcolonial Britain
78 books — 28 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFusion of Reality by K VariaInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters


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