Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mara (6 Lists)



The Books of Jacob by Olga TokarczukMiss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite YoungDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Non-Male Maximalism
11 books — 3 voters
By Night in Chile by Roberto BolañoThe Cannibal by John HawkesThe Trial by Franz KafkaTales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. LovecraftThe Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
Atmospheric Literature
13 books — 3 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. Chambers
HBO's True Detective
113 books — 116 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,697 books — 13,219 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAnimal Farm by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books Ever
78,137 books — 291,331 voters