Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mia (20 Lists)



Girl Meets Boy by Ali SmithAsh by Malinda Lo
Lesbian Retellings
144 books — 61 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoShiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Best Books About Animals
1,862 books — 1,927 voters

Matchless by Gregory MaguireBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Worst Books I've Ever Read
148 books — 15 voters
Alanna by Tamora PierceElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
3,256 books — 8,821 voters

Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,512 books — 69,830 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert
SF Masterworks
203 books — 727 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction
3,829 books — 7,574 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDune by Frank Herbert
Best Books Ever
78,136 books — 291,357 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodGirl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology
371 books — 545 voters
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate BeatonXkcd by Randall MunroeGreat Aches by John Allison
Best of the Web
464 books — 455 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Best Love Stories
5,236 books — 9,763 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonSkinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Best Humorous Books
4,420 books — 8,080 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAssassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,605 books — 26,728 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreY by Brian K. VaughanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanPride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,778 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,404 books — 2,233 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineWicked by Gregory MaguirePeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon ScieszkaFables, Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,840 books — 9,203 voters

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetAvalon High by Meg CabotThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred TennysonThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Best Arthurian Fiction
483 books — 1,450 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,705 books — 25,669 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Complete Poems by John Keats
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 7,000 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienStardust by Neil GaimanThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,102 voters