Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Barrita (25 Lists)



House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlade House by David MitchellThe City & the City by China MiévillePiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Odd Architecture
117 books — 27 voters
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoMore Than This by Patrick NessThe Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
YA fantasy/sf novels with major LGBTQ Characters
571 books — 627 voters

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarThe Deep by Rivers SolomonGideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirWilder Girls by Rory Power
2019 Queer SFF
155 books — 368 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Bloody Chamber by Angela CarterAt the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij JohnsonAlphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillipThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
SciFi & Fantasy Books With Beautiful Prose
110 books — 100 voters

The Severed Moon by Leigh BardugoNature Observer by Maggie A. SichterRead Harder by Book Riot
Journals That Spark Extreme Creativity
267 books — 200 voters
Stiff by Mary Roach
Forensics: If It Doesn't Walk, We Bring Out the Chalk
148 books — 225 voters

Animorphia by Kerby RosanesFantastic Cities by Steve McDonaldDoodle Invasion by Zifflin
Best Coloring Books Ever
310 books — 138 voters
Amnesty by Lara Elena DonnellyExhalation by Ted Chiang
Can't Wait Science Fiction/Fantasy of 2019
599 books — 1,724 voters

Spook by Mary Roach
You Read a Book about What?
4,126 books — 2,336 voters
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Books made into TV Miniseries/Made for TV movie/TV series
308 books — 33 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Non-Humanoid Aliens
82 books — 49 voters
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
14,145 books — 10,168 voters

Dreams Underfoot by Charles de LintMagic for Beginners by Kelly LinkMixed Magics by Diana Wynne Jones
Fantasy Stories
76 books — 66 voters
Kraken by Wendy Williams
Biology Of Your Favorite Animal
256 books — 138 voters

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesA Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.2 and Above
908 books — 451 voters
This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong
Best Book Titles
12,147 books — 8,559 voters

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne JonesThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Humorous Books
4,421 books — 8,088 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 170 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Books made into really good movies
575 books — 291 voters
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books Adapted Into Movies
45 books — 25 voters

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Horror Novels
2,119 books — 5,505 voters
The Snow Child by Eowyn IveyThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla PetrushevskayaMy Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate BernheimerThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Fairy Tales for Grown Children
326 books — 281 voters

Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,941 books — 2,086 voters
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,866 books — 2,250 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,929 books — 3,627 voters