The Big Books of Fall

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jaymee (26 Lists)



Proof by David Auburn
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
506 books — 612 voters
White Swan, Black Swan by Adrienne SharpUp to This Pointe by Jennifer Longo
Best Ballet Books Ever!
174 books — 135 voters

The Archaeology of the Afterlife by Tony Allan
Mummy Science
66 books — 17 voters
Girl in Motion by Miriam Wenger-LandisBright Burning Stars by A.K. SmallThe Random House Book of Dance Stories by Felicity Trotman
Best Books About Dance
227 books — 196 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,311 voters
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
Sylvia Plath Referenced in Fiction
100 books — 8 voters

Winter Season by Toni BentleyCelestial Bodies by Laura Jacobs
Best Non-fiction Books on Ballet
38 books — 23 voters
Balanchine by Bernard TaperWinter Season by Toni Bentley
Non Fiction Ballet
17 books — 7 voters

We Wish You Luck by Caroline ZancanThe Lying Life of Adults by Elena FerranteThe Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa GoenawanSummer by Ali Smith
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
611 books — 1,295 voters
State of Wonder by Ann PatchettMating by Norman RushFieldwork by Mischa BerlinskiEuphoria by Lily KingFar Afield by Susanna Kaysen
Novels with Anthropologists
8 books — 4 voters

Confessions by Kanae Minato
School Murder Mysteries
142 books — 91 voters
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
Young Adult Road Trip Novels
370 books — 1,963 voters

Plainwater by Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonOedipal Dreams by Evelyn Lau
Prose poetry
97 books — 51 voters
Mapping The Mind by Rita CarterLooking for Spinoza by António DamásioA User's Guide to the Brain by John J. RateyAn Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman
Neuroscience for Non-Scientists
112 books — 120 voters

The History of Medicine by Lisa YountThe Story of Medicine by Anne RooneyColonial Pathologies by Warwick AndersonAgents of Apocalypse by Ken De Bevoise
History of Medicine
359 books — 166 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Mind Apart by Susanne Paola Antonetta
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,250 books — 2,639 voters

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Medicine and Literature
2,031 books — 2,280 voters
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Juvenile Narrators in Books for Grown-Ups
231 books — 157 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 584 voters
The Iron Road by James MawdsleyBurma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Myanmar/Burma
133 books — 73 voters

I Have Seen the World Begin by Carsten JensenShopping for Buddhas by Jeff GreenwaldBurma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia
318 books — 340 voters
Woman's World by Graham RawleDiary of an Amateur Photographer by Graham Rawle
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
306 books — 552 voters

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Powerful International Non-Fiction
295 books — 318 voters
The Blue Notebook by James A. LevineDarfur Diaries by Jen MarloweThe Translator by Daoud Hari
Best Location-Based and History-Based Books to Read While Traveling
1,091 books — 649 voters

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburō ŌeBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Best Books About Japan
534 books — 360 voters
Good Benito by Alan LightmanEinstein’s Dreams by Alan LightmanThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaAs She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan LethemThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Favorite Science/Math-themed novels
34 books — 44 voters