Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter (7 Lists)



Plainsong by Kent HarufGiants in the Earth by O.E. RølvaagBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Great Plains
313 books — 139 voters
The Neon Wilderness by Nelson AlgrenThe Murphy Stories by Mark CostelloThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleA Bit on the Side by William TrevorOther Electricities by Ander Monson
Collections of Short Stories
2,915 books — 2,067 voters

Chicago by Nelson AlgrenThe Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson AlgrenThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Coast of Chicago by Stuart DybekSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Books Set in Chicago
698 books — 335 voters
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
The Lost Classics list
63 books — 14 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolThe Dead by James Joyce
World's Greatest Novellas
733 books — 1,470 voters
The Mimic's Own Voice by Tom WilliamsChicago Stories by Michael Czyzniejewski
Underdog Literature: 2012
231 books — 75 voters

Hunger by Knut HamsunDoctor Glas by Hjalmar SöderbergGiants in the Earth by O.E. RølvaagBarabbas by Pär LagerkvistThe Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,223 books — 1,248 voters