Big Books of Summer

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Erik (40 Lists)



Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)
1,408 books — 786 voters
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley
Insomnia literaria
19 books — 9 voters

Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dalí
Creation Books
120 books — 21 voters
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Erewhonian Literature
25 books — 3 voters

Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
Histories of the Personal and Intimate (nonfiction)
95 books — 7 voters
The Harder They Come by Michael Thelwell
Caribbean Literature
580 books — 264 voters

Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves
Sexuality and History
233 books — 57 voters
The Persian Boy by Mary RenaultQuo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
519 books — 434 voters

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
The Goriest Books Ever
409 books — 629 voters
Désirée by Annemarie Selinko
The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction
2,332 books — 1,376 voters

Shogun by James Clavell
Historical Gems from the Past
551 books — 322 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Manfiction
2,219 books — 553 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Domestic Service - Help Wanted!
236 books — 115 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature
364 books — 200 voters

Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 202 voters
The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Transgressive and Bizzaro Fiction
323 books — 133 voters

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Exploring Taboos
207 books — 143 voters
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Historical Erotica
241 books — 221 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTrainspotting by Irvine WelshJunky by William S. BurroughsNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Substance Abuse & Addiction
719 books — 1,320 voters
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
1,060 books — 195 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckSiddhartha by Hermann HesseA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
World's Greatest Novellas
732 books — 1,466 voters
At Home by Bill Bryson
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,864 books — 2,247 voters

Choke by Chuck PalahniukTrainspotting by Irvine WelshHaunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Dark Humor
732 books — 1,638 voters
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Literary Erotica
130 books — 106 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
465 books — 262 voters

Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Best South Slavic Literature
364 books — 309 voters
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Books That Should Be Contemporary Cultural Markers But Aren't As Widely Read
90 books — 15 voters

The Odyssey by Homer
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 6,999 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
199 books — 268 voters


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