Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by David (9 Lists)



How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur HermanThe Pencil by Henry Petroski
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,862 books — 2,245 voters
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy HollingThree Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Favorite books from my childhood
4,498 books — 7,692 voters

Exploring Oregon's Wild Areas by William L. Sullivan
Pacific Northwest Books
925 books — 614 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleUlysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,699 books — 13,220 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonEndurance by Alfred LansingSalt by Mark Kurlansky
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,260 books — 8,101 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,373 voters

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,145 books — 2,318 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,511 books — 123,791 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,819 voters