Big Books of Summer

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



Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Contemporary Cult Fiction
503 books — 497 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
767 books — 1,012 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Literary Fiction
1,595 books — 1,587 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCandide by VoltaireSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsChess Story by Stefan Zweig
World's Greatest Novellas
733 books — 1,470 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Cantos by Ezra PoundFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 365 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,537 books — 123,875 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante AlighieriParadise by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
930 books — 2,386 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWatchmen by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,778 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceNausea by Jean-Paul SartreCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,061 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Abandoned Books
1,465 books — 1,462 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
78,231 books — 291,761 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,255 books — 10,934 voters