Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Callie (12 Lists)



Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia DavisNine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Collections of Short Stories
2,913 books — 2,065 voters
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition by Paul HawkenEarth in Mind by David W. Orr
Best Environmental Books
1,092 books — 1,240 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Writers who committed suicide
459 books — 288 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,217 books — 2,416 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Feminist Books
2,803 books — 3,857 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFight Club by Chuck PalahniukTrainspotting by Irvine WelshA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
745 books — 389 voters
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
815 books — 500 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFates and Furies by Lauren GroffBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 205 voters
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
50 Books By African Women That Everyone Should Read
53 books — 135 voters

The Girls by Emma Cline
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2016 that are not part of a series
204 books — 298 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Locavore Reading List
70 books — 192 voters