Big Books of Spring

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Daniel (12 Lists)



Outliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSix Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
Best Pop Science Books
174 books — 189 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Best General Science Books
586 books — 494 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 799 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Medicine and Literature
1,924 books — 2,048 voters

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
A Skeptic's Library
170 books — 127 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Classics for Skeptics
28 books — 26 voters

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,070 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonCollapse by Jared DiamondSix Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,885 books — 3,616 voters

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai RichlerSolomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Oh, Canada!
1,344 books — 507 voters
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,913 books — 26,175 voters

Earth Abides by George R. StewartA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,272 books — 3,434 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Feminist Science Fiction Books
241 books — 413 voters