Big Books of Summer

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



Dungeon of Dread by Rose Estes
Best Gamebooks
69 books — 14 voters
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganCollapse by Jared Diamond
History as Literature
745 books — 661 voters

Doubt is Their Product by David Michaels
President Obama's Summer Reading List
343 books — 170 voters
Collapse by Jared DiamondFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganEndurance by Alfred Lansing
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,364 books — 4,855 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenCry of the Kalahari by Mark OwensField Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Best Environmental Books
1,092 books — 1,240 voters

The Great Arc by John KeaySoul of the Rhino by Hemanta MishraSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
India
1,034 books — 883 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchCollapse by Jared DiamondLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,275 books — 8,096 voters

The Endurance by Caroline AlexanderThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Non-fiction Disaster Books
329 books — 331 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,579 books — 18,687 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannIndian Givers by Jack WeatherfordLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Best American History Books
2,216 books — 2,666 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Best Books of 2006
990 books — 748 voters