Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alex Kohn (15 Lists)



Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 985 voters
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2011
612 books — 1,709 voters

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,089 books — 628 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,913 voters

The Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonCandide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,011 voters
The Tempest by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonVolpone by Ben JonsonLa vida es sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 708 voters

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,838 books — 22,452 voters
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Best Humorous Books
4,449 books — 8,316 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Best Books Ever
78,959 books — 294,035 voters
Foundation by Isaac AsimovChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,764 books — 25,798 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeMistborn by Brandon SandersonA Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,165 books — 10,174 voters
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard HofstadterThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonAssassination Vacation by Sarah VowellThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Best American History Books
2,260 books — 3,076 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Principia by Isaac NewtonDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo GalileiTwo Treatises of Government by John Locke1984 by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,497 books — 5,309 voters
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Books that Made You Cry!
3,367 books — 8,002 voters

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,838 books — 124,636 voters