Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Helena (26 Lists)



The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best School Assigned Books
767 books — 2,059 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Fiction Novels That Take Place In Canada
169 books — 64 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHowards End by E.M. ForsterNight and Day by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
534 books — 778 voters
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Women's Short Stories
611 books — 39 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAt Home by Bill BrysonA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,262 books — 8,120 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownOrientalism by Edward W. SaidThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books About Colonialism
688 books — 241 voters

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,116 voters
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Victorian Novels
215 books — 533 voters

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinCranford by Elizabeth GaskellFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzUnder the Same Stars by Libba Bray
YA Fiction set in the 1980s
126 books — 54 voters

Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Books on the Israel Palestine Conflict (fiction and nonfiction)
492 books — 773 voters
The Gunslinger by Stephen KingHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesAlanna by Tamora PierceGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettMort by Terry Pratchett
Best Fantasy of the 80s
355 books — 695 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAlanna by Tamora PierceGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettMort by Terry PratchettHyperion by Dan Simmons
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Mazes and Labyrinths
206 books — 129 voters

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHamnet by Maggie O'FarrellDeacon King Kong by James McBride
Best Books of 2020
1,566 books — 1,947 voters
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Dark Academia
374 books — 1,507 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDracula by Bram StokerA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,542 books — 123,908 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareArtemis Fowl by Eoin ColferThe Cruel Prince by Holly BlackJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Books about Faery
1,145 books — 2,324 voters

Inheritor by C.J. CherryhDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonJingo by Terry PratchettFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,714 books — 25,762 voters
Alanna by Tamora PierceTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareAs You Like It by William ShakespeareCymbeline by William Shakespeare
Girls disguised as Boys
859 books — 982 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinA Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienA Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Medieval Fantasy Books
509 books — 935 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanHoles by Louis SacharThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,682 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinLes Misérables by Victor HugoAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Stand by Stephen King
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,997 voters
Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
535 books — 1,890 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsBorrowed Time by Paul MonetteThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMillennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
346 books — 234 voters
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,579 books — 18,688 voters