Big Books of Summer

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



Cassandra by Christa WolfMedea by Christa WolfThe Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Best Feminist Fiction
1,523 books — 2,687 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlThe Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar WildeWhen the World Was Steady by Claire MessudAs You Like It by William ShakespeareThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best British and Irish Literature
1,176 books — 1,115 voters

Die Stimmen des Flusses by Jaume Cabré
Novels Inspired by the Spanish Civil War
86 books — 136 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Best Feminist Books
2,804 books — 3,852 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,348 books — 4,658 voters
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice WalkerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Best African American Books
1,054 books — 1,155 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,618 books — 26,742 voters
Harmony by Project ItohParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Diverse Sci-Fi
129 books — 58 voters

Momo by Michael EndePerfume by Patrick SüskindEffi Briest by Theodor FontaneThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Devil's Elixirs by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Best German Authors
616 books — 707 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,988 books — 26,601 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Most Interesting Magic System
2,697 books — 8,896 voters
Cassandra by Christa WolfThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Books Ever
78,171 books — 291,530 voters