Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Holly (11 Lists)



The Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Young Adult Books
13,191 books — 80,426 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Best Historical Fiction
7,857 books — 26,145 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Best South Asian Fiction
757 books — 1,923 voters
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinBlack Beauty by Anna Sewell
Best Animal-Themed Books
617 books — 491 voters

Night by Elie WieselMy Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,205 books — 2,105 voters
Freedom from the Known by J. KrishnamurtiThe Power of Now by Eckhart TolleA New Earth by Eckhart TolleMeditation Now by S.N. GoenkaMany Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss
Best Spiritual Books
1,579 books — 1,457 voters

The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman DoidgeScattered Minds by Gabor MatéA Briefer History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
favorite non-fiction
2,932 books — 1,328 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,980 books — 26,588 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,705 books — 25,669 voters