Big Books of Summer

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



The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchristThe Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Top 10 books about human consciousness
13 books — 5 voters
The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist
Consciousness, Mind and Physics
30 books — 7 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,180 books — 9,129 voters
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron RalstonTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
Books of Adventure and Survival
64 books — 68 voters

Annapurna by Maurice HerzogNo Way Down by Graham Bowley
Worshipping Mountains
172 books — 69 voters
Touching the Void by Joe SimpsonAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice HerzogThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerNo Way Down by Graham BowleySavage Summit by Jennifer Jordan
Climbing and Mountaineering
216 books — 170 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Best Adventure Travel Memoir
292 books — 223 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonA Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
Vicarious Thrills
416 books — 434 voters

Broad Peak by Richard SaleThe Ghosts of K2 by Mick ConefreyKangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak by Charles EvansNanga Parbat by Karl M. HerrligkofferAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Himalayan First Ascents (English)
14 books — 2 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books With Beautiful Prose
237 books — 171 voters

Quicksilver by Neal StephensonThe Confusion by Neal StephensonThe System of the World by Neal StephensonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,373 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoAnimal Farm by George OrwellLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books Ever
78,152 books — 291,473 voters