Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Philip (7 Lists)



Middlemarch by George EliotOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensLes Misérables by Victor HugoEmma by Jane AustenWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,905 voters
The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanConsider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
First In Series (2013)
899 books — 2,037 voters

The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettPossession by A.S. ByattThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónDissolution by C.J. Sansom
Best Historical Mystery
2,277 books — 4,740 voters
Black and Blue by Ian RankinLanark by Alasdair GrayThe Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice GallowayTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Best Scottish Fiction
423 books — 286 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakQuicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,999 voters
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna PolitkovskayaMagnetic Mountain by Stephen KotkinBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumLenin's Tomb by David Remnick
Best Russian History Books
581 books — 420 voters

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rest Is Noise by Alex RossPlanet of Slums by Mike Davis
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,373 voters