Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Akemi G. (63 Lists)



The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Favorite books from my childhood
4,516 books — 7,702 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeHamlet by William Shakespeare
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,843 books — 124,663 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,089 books — 628 voters
Tao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XAntigone by Sophocles
The Most Influential Books
1,497 books — 5,309 voters

The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
[ATY 2022] Female Detective/Police Officer
256 books — 111 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataThe Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
Best Japanese Books
779 books — 3,260 voters

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
389 books — 312 voters
Being Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
594 books — 268 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best of: All Pulitzer Winners
96 books — 36 voters
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
She's Not Feeling Good at All: Sad Female Characters
235 books — 343 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,938 books — 2,076 voters
Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz
The Overlooked Women of History
967 books — 254 voters

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Book Riot 2022 #11: Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character
42 books — 10 voters
I Am Jazz by Jessica HerthelGender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Book Riot 2022 #17: Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary
60 books — 11 voters

Almost American Girl by Robin HaGender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Book Riot 2022 #6: Read a nonfiction YA comic
46 books — 8 voters
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho
Book Riot 2022 #4: Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma
61 books — 12 voters

82년생 김지영 by Cho Nam-Joo
BTS Reads
124 books — 137 voters
The Making of Asian America by Erika LeeAlmost American Girl by Robin HaDisplacement by Kiku HughesInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Asian American experience
15 books — 5 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Books White People Need to Read
1,450 books — 1,815 voters
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizThe Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Insatiable Readers': American History 101
12 books — 5 voters

Mermaid Saga, Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
Comics & Graphic Novels by Women
1,496 books — 1,369 voters
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
AAPI Graphic Novels
125 books — 14 voters

Displacement by Kiku Hughes
Japanese American Internment in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
57 books — 29 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Short Stories
1,772 books — 1,081 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eerie fictions written by women
244 books — 68 voters
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs
332 books — 259 voters

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Women & Gender Studies
1,489 books — 584 voters
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
Twelfth Night Retellings
29 books — 18 voters

The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
Best Fantasy Short Story Collections
526 books — 295 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Female-Authored Weird Fiction
468 books — 186 voters


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