Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sally (37 Lists)



The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanFinding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Nonfiction Books about Plants
439 books — 152 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPossession by A.S. ByattThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
784 books — 1,401 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I wish I had never read
1,308 books — 1,378 voters
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Historical Fiction In Translation
316 books — 27 voters

How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
European History
792 books — 193 voters
London by Peter Ackroyd
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,882 books — 2,262 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,000 voters
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddKinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Nature Books
1,158 books — 921 voters
The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanThe Shining by Stephen King
Books Made Into Movies That Were Awful
54 books — 31 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,233 books — 15,906 voters
Dissolution by C.J. SansomThe River Why by David James Duncan
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,719 books — 1,114 voters

Arguing with Idiots by Glenn BeckGodless by Ann CoulterComing Out Straight by Richard CohenGoing Rogue by Sarah PalinHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,042 books — 5,314 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
904 books — 1,228 voters

London by Peter AckroydLondon Under by Peter AckroydLondon by Edward RutherfurdThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
London Calling
1,236 books — 647 voters
All Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,156 books — 1,034 voters

Sick Puppy by Carl HiaasenA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books that Make you Laugh
3,547 books — 5,232 voters
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels
105 books — 130 voters

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,945 books — 15,496 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Male Character
3,173 books — 3,073 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,332 books — 8,174 voters
One for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,412 books — 4,626 voters

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Ending
8,144 books — 6,344 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Literary Mysteries
2,684 books — 5,099 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Literary Fiction
1,622 books — 1,720 voters

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Worst Ending
269 books — 562 voters
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Best Feminist Fiction
1,545 books — 2,769 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferGilead by Marilynne RobinsonMedicus by Ruth Downie
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
What To Read Next
21,104 books — 24,312 voters


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