Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Emily (184 Lists)



Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild
Canal boats - Juvenile Fiction
8 books — 2 voters
Sea Legs by Jules BakesSpent by Alison Bechdel
Great Graphic Novels (released in) 2025
209 books — 33 voters

Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonConfessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Best Books of 1985
339 books — 218 voters
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate by Nancy MitfordHons and Rebels by Jessica MitfordThe Mitfords by Charlotte MosleyDecca by Jessica Mitford
Focus On The Mitford Girls
62 books — 29 voters

While the Music Lasted by Kitty BarneThe Road to the Harbour by Susan PleydellSister Anne Resigns by Josephine ElderLady of Letters by Josephine ElderLittle G by E.M. Channon
Greyladies Press books
62 books — 5 voters
Chatterton Square by E.H. YoungStrange Journey by Maud CairnesSally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs
British Library Women Writers
29 books — 16 voters

Black Banner Abroad by Geoffrey TreaseFamily Sabbatical by Carol Ryrie BrinkNobody's Girl by Hector MalotEnid by Cati BaurHortense by Cati Baur
France: for Children and Middle Grades
284 books — 28 voters
The Magician's Book by Laura MillerLetters to Children by Lyle DorsettThe Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
All Things C.S. Lewis!
26 books — 4 voters

Jam Tomorrow by Monica RedlichSaturday and the Irish Aunt by Jenifer WayneSally's Family by Gwendoline CourtneyFive Farthings by Monica RedlichCandy Nevill by Clare Mallory
Lesser-Known Vintage Children's Family Stories: Standalones
49 books — 6 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonAngels and Insects by A.S. ByattBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Best Books of 1992
508 books — 201 voters

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxTrainspotting by Irvine WelshA Suitable Boy by Vikram SethGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Best Books of 1993
396 books — 160 voters
Alma Mater by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Women's Colleges in America
51 books — 7 voters

Abigél by Magda Szabó
20th Century Hungarian Literature
147 books — 191 voters
Personal Pleasures by Rose MacaulayBusiness as Usual by Jane OliverLatchkey Ladies by Marjorie Grant
Handheld Press
47 books — 13 voters

Doublefields by Elizabeth EnrightWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesNightbirds on Nantucket by Joan AikenThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Best Books 1966
159 books — 75 voters
A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories by Margaretta MorrisThe Forgotten Girls by Monica PottsHigh on the Hog by Jessica B. HarrisCrying in H Mart by Michelle ZaunerComplete Poems by Marianne Moore
Books by Bryn Mawr Alumnae
96 books — 17 voters

Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Best Books Published in 2013
3,586 books — 7,153 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Cinderella Retellings
406 books — 316 voters

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Best Halloween Picture Books
763 books — 600 voters
Lesley Chilton by Eliza Orne White
Best Books 1903
42 books — 21 voters

Not the End of the World by Kate AtkinsonThe Midwife by Jennifer WorthStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Best Books of 2002
687 books — 241 voters
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Books 1971
159 books — 63 voters

Abigail by Magda SzabóThe Woods in Winter by Stella GibbonsThe Crystal Cave by Mary StewartThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleThe Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Best Books 1970
309 books — 77 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Best Books on Unusual Childhoods
140 books — 34 voters

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.Maidens' Trip by Emma SmithThe Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun BythellMy Turn to Make the Tea by Monica DickensOne Pair Of Hands by Monica Dickens
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
838 books — 421 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Derivatives of Jane Eyre
181 books — 168 voters

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangZita the Spacegirl by Ben HatkeNursery Rhyme Comics by Chris DuffyRelish by Lucy KnisleyGiants Beware! by Jorge Aguirre
Books Published by First Second
267 books — 42 voters
Ex Libris by Anne FadimanThe Reading Promise by Alice OzmaThe Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy WelchThe Magician's Book by Laura MillerRereadings by Anne Fadiman
Bibliomemoirs
109 books — 27 voters

The Stone Diaries by Carol ShieldsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Blue Castle by L.M. MontgomeryHark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
100 Canadian Books to Read in a Lifetime
124 books — 66 voters
They Were Sisters by Dorothy WhippleCompany in the Evening by Ursula Orange
Best Books 1944
129 books — 34 voters


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