Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kim (14 Lists)



One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëBeloved by Toni MorrisonAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books Ever
78,250 books — 291,864 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Memoirs by Women
3,252 books — 3,360 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Feminist Fiction
1,524 books — 2,688 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellNight by Elie WieselThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Changed My World
3,290 books — 3,257 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,768 books — 6,030 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire100 Love Sonnets by Pablo NerudaCollected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Best Poetry Books
3,048 books — 2,607 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,349 books — 4,670 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,552 books — 123,931 voters

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,704 books — 13,226 voters
The World According to Garp by John IrvingSophie’s Choice by William StyronRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,949 books — 1,886 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesPossession by A.S. ByattThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,682 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,374 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters