Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tim (13 Lists)



Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
89 books — 1,624 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Detective Fiction
1,238 books — 1,138 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Nautical Tales
751 books — 402 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,893 books — 49,820 voters

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,705 books — 25,667 voters
Pop. 1280 by Jim ThompsonAfter Dark, My Sweet by Jim ThompsonThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
751 books — 1,006 voters

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
95 books — 411 voters
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,843 books — 22,345 voters
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan LethemThe Long Walk by Richard Bachman
Dystopia!
1,232 books — 2,785 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books Ever
78,136 books — 291,314 voters
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters