Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Maggy Eijk (21 Lists)



Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
3,021 books — 12,502 voters
Little Bee by Chris CleaveA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Books That You Never Pick Back Up After Putting Down
216 books — 104 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,287 books — 11,630 voters
Generation X by Douglas CouplandBlindness by José Saramago
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,529 books — 8,795 voters

Generation X by Douglas CouplandGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters
Lucky by Alice SeboldLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleWasted by Marya Hornbacher
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,229 books — 3,941 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Great Debut Novels
1,595 books — 1,488 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersHedda Gabler by Henrik IbsenA Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Suicide
733 books — 498 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesBlindness by José SaramagoThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,682 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn Beauty by Zadie SmithProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Classics 101
441 books — 113 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
12,799 books — 10,580 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Books That Made You Cry
1,606 books — 3,290 voters

The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Female Lead Characters
4,895 books — 5,940 voters
Perfume by Patrick SüskindGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,545 books — 123,909 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Plague by Albert CamusRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinBlindness by José SaramagoExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books Ever
78,234 books — 291,809 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Summer Reading 2011
62 books — 92 voters
Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Best Feminist Books
2,810 books — 3,867 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBlindness by José SaramagoClose Range by Annie Proulx
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 257 voters
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Unhappy Marriages
507 books — 302 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 22,362 voters