Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Marty (13 Lists)



Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Female Lead Characters
4,896 books — 5,940 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Stand by Stephen King
Apocalypse: It's Over, Dude.
626 books — 776 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselShattered Dreams by Irene SpencerAnne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,391 books — 7,332 voters
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar MandanipourSoulless by Gail CarrigerProphecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Best Book Cover 2009
333 books — 2,840 voters

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,771 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Male Character
3,174 books — 3,039 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesMy Story by Dave PelzerHouse of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIIMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,229 books — 3,941 voters
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinDaughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Disappointing Books
2,770 books — 4,607 voters
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,927 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Books not to read
319 books — 180 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,700 books — 13,221 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,988 books — 26,601 voters