Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Monique (13 Lists)



The Veil Unveiled by Faegheh ShiraziQur'an and Woman by Amina WadudThe Scimitar and the Veil by Jennifer HeathFemmes hors du voile by Laure AdlerNine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
About Muslim Women (nonfiction)
215 books — 153 voters
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Best Middle East Fiction
439 books — 485 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Great Women Authors
1,209 books — 335 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezNefertiti by Michelle MoranThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesWorld Without End by Ken Follett
Best Historical Fiction
7,883 books — 26,245 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 22,354 voters
The Fountainhead by Ayn RandWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettSophie’s Choice by William StyronTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,823 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,529 books — 123,861 voters
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Canadian Fiction
1,042 books — 605 voters

Ce que le jour doit à la nuit by Yasmina KhadraL'écrivain by Yasmina KhadraL'imposture des mots by Yasmina KhadraThe Attack by Yasmina KhadraSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Best Algerian Novels
41 books — 37 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books Ever
78,203 books — 291,677 voters

Children of the Alley by Naguib MahfouzThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Best Literature
133 books — 27 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeTwo Solitudes by Hugh MacLennanThe Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
Best Canadian Literature
2,340 books — 1,150 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books that left you happy--and depressed because hardly another book lived up to it
691 books — 450 voters