Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sharon (15 Lists)



World Made by Hand by James Howard KunstlerParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
539 books — 740 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteA Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,445 books — 16,344 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Gay Fiction
2,706 books — 3,912 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,040 books — 15,764 voters

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweShutter Island by Dennis Lehane
What We've Read So Far In 2010
4,982 books — 1,782 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Southern Literature
1,382 books — 2,600 voters

Under the Dome by Stephen King
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,998 voters
Cavedweller by Dorothy AllisonBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Best Southern Books
837 books — 749 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,706 books — 25,694 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,987 books — 26,610 voters

Beauty by Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperParadise by Toni MorrisonParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Feminist Fiction
1,523 books — 2,687 voters
Paradise by Toni MorrisonStones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Oprah's Book Club Picks
130 books — 2,206 voters

Belong to Me by Marisa de los SantosPeople of the Book by Geraldine BrooksThe Hour I First Believed by Wally LambChange of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,771 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,822 voters

Best Books Ever
78,201 books — 291,642 voters