Big Books of Summer

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



A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Books
2,803 books — 3,851 voters
Quiet by Susan CainThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,367 books — 4,906 voters

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,261 books — 8,107 voters
Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman
Climbing and Mountaineering
216 books — 170 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,372 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Female Lead Characters
4,896 books — 5,940 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Most Interesting Magic System
2,697 books — 8,896 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,328 books — 11,909 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Sunlight Dialogues by John GardnerA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnWives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,999 voters
A Conspiracy of Paper by David LissThe Alienist by Caleb Carr
Best Historical Mystery
2,278 books — 4,740 voters

The Robber Bride by Margaret AtwoodSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Feminist Fiction
1,523 books — 2,687 voters
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinMatilda by Roald DahlWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakBaby-Sitters Club Boxed Set #1 by Ann M. MartinThe BFG by Roald Dahl
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,963 books — 10,850 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,598 books — 6,000 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,700 books — 13,222 voters