Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lori (16 Lists)



A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodToo Much Happiness by Alice MunroThe Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,893 books — 49,818 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Fencing fiction
155 books — 220 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAnimal Farm by George OrwellRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books Ever
78,129 books — 291,237 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLa casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García LorcaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,088 books — 623 voters
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2011
612 books — 1,710 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,175 books — 1,901 voters
La mujer habitada by Gioconda BelliEl beso de la mujer araña by Manuel PuigLa casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García LorcaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCuentos de amor de locura y de muerte by Horacio Quiroga
Libros en Español
730 books — 658 voters

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Latin American Fiction
892 books — 1,196 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Best Humorous Books
4,416 books — 8,076 voters

The Shack by William Paul Young
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,889 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Historical Fiction
7,860 books — 26,172 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel TatumThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood"They Take Our Jobs!" by Aviva Chomsky
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,182 books — 1,598 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Pearl by John SteinbeckOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,509 books — 123,703 voters