Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jennifer (30 Lists)



As Cool As I Am by Pete FrommApples Never Fall by Liane MoriartyA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesMr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDanielMoonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2024: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2024
6,108 books — 353 voters
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia AhernMaryland Time Exposures, 1840-1940 by Marion E. WarrenThe Warrior Heart Practice by HeatherAsh AmaraThe Flatshare by Beth O'LearyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,950 books — 517 voters

The Hating Game by Sally ThorneThe Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie DrayAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanTaste by Stanley TucciIsland Queen by Vanessa Riley
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 580 voters
Prep by Curtis SittenfeldAlways and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny HanThe City of Falling Angels by John BerendtAlias Declassified by Mark Cotta VazConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 696 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerNormal People by Sally RooneyThe Plot Against America by Philip RothAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenP.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,368 books — 848 voters
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia AlvarezPortrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
904 books — 1,228 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,102 books — 1,015 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensWinter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
14,252 books — 10,277 voters

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Sandcastle Girls by Chris BohjalianThe Right-Hand Shore by Christopher Tilghman
Beach, Sand & Shore
581 books — 44 voters
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee SmithRemarkable Creatures by Tracy ChevalierThe Book of Speculation by Erika SwylerCoastliners by Joanne Harris
Seashells
80 books — 25 voters

Seven Year Switch by Claire CookSummer House by Nancy ThayerThe Beach House by Mary Alice MonroeSilver Girl by Elin HilderbrandTime Flies by Claire Cook
Books on the beach
97 books — 47 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingWe Were Liars by E. LockhartCoastliners by Joanne HarrisRemarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Give me the Beach!
57 books — 25 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingBeach Babylon by Imogen Edwards-JonesOuter Banks by Anne Rivers SiddonsEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares
Takes you away...to the beach
392 books — 270 voters
The Island by Elin HilderbrandSummer Sisters by Judy BlumeThe Blue Bistro by Elin HilderbrandThe Beach House by Jane GreenSilver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Summer Beach Reads (all stories set in beach towns)
442 books — 449 voters

The Truth About Forever by Sarah DessenThe Last Summer of You and Me by Ann BrasharesThe Help by Kathryn StockettSomething Borrowed by Emily GiffinThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Great Beach Reads
367 books — 332 voters
White Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezIsland Beneath the Sea by Isabel AllendeA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Caribbean Literature
582 books — 266 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankConfessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory MaguireThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Apothecary’s House by Adrian MathewsMargot by Jillian Cantor
Holland/Netherlands
66 books — 24 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Coffee Trader by David LissThe Miniaturist by Jessie BurtonThe Apothecary’s House by Adrian MathewsTulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
Books Set in Amsterdam
90 books — 72 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best California Books
619 books — 228 voters
City of God by Paulo LinsState of Wonder by Ann PatchettBrazil by John UpdikeTent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
Books Set in Brazil
40 books — 24 voters

Inevitable by Claire LymanNeither Here nor There by Bill BrysonThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy ChevalierA Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant
Books set in Belgium
85 books — 20 voters
Sophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas JonassonAstrid and Veronika by Linda OlssonThe Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,224 books — 1,251 voters

One Day by David Nicholls
Books Set in Scotland
1,108 books — 693 voters
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Best Fiction Set in Ireland
819 books — 561 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,844 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books with Witty Banter/Dialogue
1,061 books — 866 voters

Good in Bed by Jennifer WeinerIn Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Pennsylvania Books
339 books — 138 voters
Forrest Gump by Winston GroomMary Poppins by P.L. TraversCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. AbagnaleThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,219 books — 6,116 voters