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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dusty Summers (14 Lists)



The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Most Disturbing Books
254 books — 241 voters
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
876 books — 1,846 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesShe’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Oprah's Book Club Picks
130 books — 2,205 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,050 books — 3,973 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
101 books — 264 voters
Martin Dressler by Steven MillhauserInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoHawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Novels about Architects and Architecture
10 books — 7 voters

Longitude by Dava SobelSalt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonCod by Mark Kurlansky
Histories of the Everyday
378 books — 434 voters
Martin Dressler by Steven MillhauserExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Gangs of New York by Herbert AsburyMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Tales of New York City
1,732 books — 1,309 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,579 books — 18,688 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 22,381 voters

The Fight by Norman Mailer
Top reads for sports fans
965 books — 805 voters
White Bicycles by Joe BoydChronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,484 books — 1,399 voters

Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters
Salt by Mark KurlanskyThe Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,153 voters