Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Damion (18 Lists)



Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Best Books Ever
78,191 books — 291,627 voters
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireIlluminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Best Poetry Books
3,033 books — 2,601 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,526 books — 123,851 voters
Dopefiend by Donald GoinesThe Room by Hubert Selby Jr.Hamlet by William ShakespeareHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergTropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Best Transgressive Fiction
893 books — 973 voters

Chump Change by Dan FanteMooch by Dan FanteHating Olivia by Mark SaFrankoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cult fiction
539 books — 472 voters
Chump Change by Dan FanteJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
132 books — 193 voters

Loners by Mark SaFranko
Contemporary Cult Fiction
504 books — 496 voters
Lounge Lizard by Mark SaFrankoGod Bless America by Mark SaFranko
Best autobiographical fiction
16 books — 8 voters

Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books for the Modern Day Hippie, Bohemian, Free Spirit
439 books — 335 voters
Poems by Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense by Charles BukowskiFull of Life by John FanteMooch by Dan FanteWest of Rome by John Fante
Grit-Lit - Writing that Bleeds
112 books — 61 voters

Mooch by Dan FanteChump Change by Dan FanteHating Olivia by Mark SaFranko
Beat Lit
236 books — 182 voters
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Barry Miles' Top 10 Counterculture Books
36 books — 35 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersOn the Road by Jack KerouacLunch Poems by Frank O'HaraAsk the Dust by John FanteHunger by Knut Hamsun
Book for loners
41 books — 10 voters
Shift Change by Mark Hunter
Books you wish more people knew about - Part II
3,156 books — 2,542 voters

Internet Poetry by Damion HamiltonPolice And Goons by Damion HamiltonLil Miss Molly by Sa'id SalaamThe Preacher's Wife by Sa'id SalaamA Street Girl Named Desire by Treasure E. Blue
Wanderlust
1,090 books — 1,195 voters
An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsSons and Lovers by D.H. LawrenceThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,822 voters