Big Books of Summer

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



Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,887 books — 26,295 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisAssassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Best American History Books
2,228 books — 2,718 voters

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
166 books — 212 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Son by Philipp MeyerTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Best Westerns
1,420 books — 1,600 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,095 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Holy Bible by AnonymousAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,702 books — 13,224 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides1491 by Charles C. MannBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 22,362 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,824 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Books White People Need to Read
1,400 books — 1,672 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisThe Son by Philipp MeyerClose Range by Annie Proulx
Literary Westerns
290 books — 405 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
European History
788 books — 160 voters
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley
Best Middle Ages Books
1,301 books — 1,779 voters