Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ann Sumner (13 Lists)



The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoThe Witches by Roald DahlMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Favorite books from my childhood
4,514 books — 7,702 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Pakman Recommends Fiction
89 books — 2 voters

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo AnayaSounder by William H. ArmstrongAn American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
464 books — 1,589 voters
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingLost Horizon by James HiltonWicked by Gregory MaguireThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonRain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,362 books — 4,704 voters

Beowulf and Its Analogues by G.N.Garmonsway; Jacqueline ...Beowulf by Raymond Wilson ChambersA Concordance to Beowulf by Jess B. BessingerA Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature by Phillip PulsianoMedieval Epics by William Alfred
Books Important to Scholars of the Middle Ages
195 books — 42 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Best History Books
4,047 books — 4,627 voters

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'BrienFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeIf I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'BrienLooking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,890 voters
Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,582 books — 7,849 voters

Moonglow by Michael ChabonWarlight by Michael OndaatjePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Chapter Books to Read Out Loud
804 books — 864 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
School Novels
111 books — 155 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,355 books — 1,691 voters
Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra by Sophocles
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
763 books — 1,834 voters

Travels with Charley by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert FrostKing Lear by William ShakespeareWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Trees on Covers
933 books — 189 voters