Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Myles (12 Lists)



Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Best Shakespeare Plays
41 books — 171 voters
Tennessee Williams by John Lahr
2014 National Book Awards Longlist
41 books — 76 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMoby-Dick by Herman Melville
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 155 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Millions - The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far)
24 books — 67 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books That Have Shaped America
95 books — 54 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie Wiesel1984 by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,229 books — 3,942 voters

The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by John CheeverThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Collections of Short Stories
2,915 books — 2,067 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,061 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Books about Books
1,392 books — 1,520 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
What is Stephen Harper Reading?
37 books — 14 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters
Wonder Boys by Michael ChabonThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenPnin by Vladimir NabokovWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 608 voters