Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sandra Clark (15 Lists)



Beloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Best African American Books
1,054 books — 1,155 voters
Lucky by Alice SeboldTrash by Dorothy AllisonHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Breaking the Silence: Talking About Violence Against Women
498 books — 368 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
733 books — 1,112 voters
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Books on North Korea
138 books — 512 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
413 books — 457 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWhat Is the What by Dave EggersUnbowed by Wangari MaathaiJust Kids by Patti SmithFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,406 books — 7,373 voters

As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerParis Trout by Pete DexterBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Great Books of Southern Fiction
385 books — 444 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockKnockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Lesser Known Authors
3,961 books — 3,377 voters

What Is the What by Dave EggersFun Home by Alison BechdelLamb by Christopher MooreZeitoun by Dave EggersUnbowed by Wangari Maathai
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,373 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyParis Trout by Pete Dexter1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Darkest Books of All Time
1,312 books — 1,729 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyWatchmen by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,989 books — 26,613 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,823 voters

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,251 books — 1,658 voters
Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksSister Outsider by Audre LordeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGender Trouble by Judith Butler
Best Feminist Books
2,803 books — 3,857 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
78,209 books — 291,699 voters