Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Anubis (9 Lists)



Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTrainspotting by Irvine WelshAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisPost Office by Charles BukowskiAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Dark Humor
732 books — 1,638 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
City Life
321 books — 203 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
Books Set in Chicago
698 books — 335 voters
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Boston Books
333 books — 281 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelJunky by William S. BurroughsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Drug Memoir A List
174 books — 210 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiCollected Poems by Dylan ThomasTell Me by Kim AddonizioMud Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling by Nicole Hardy
Best Poetry Books
3,032 books — 2,592 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersIs That it? by Bob Geldof
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,379 books — 7,191 voters
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,980 books — 26,587 voters

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,101 voters