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The Big Books of Summer 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Phillip Edwards (1431 Lists)



No Way of Telling by Emma SmithTwo Boys Kissing by David LevithanThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroFlaubert's Parrot by Julian BarnesExit West by Mohsin Hamid
Title in BLUE font
631 books — 24 voters
The Invisible Man by Steve HogarthHow to Be Invisible by Kate BushOne Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil Tennant
Books by or about my favourite musicians
35 books — 4 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerImpossible Object by Nicholas MosleyQuarantine by Jim CraceSabrina by Nick DrnasoZona by Geoff Dyer
Title in RED font
932 books — 29 voters
Billy Liar by Keith WaterhouseThe Liar by Stephen FryLies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al FrankenJulian Corkle Is a Filthy Liar by D.J. Connell
Title with 'Lie'
332 books — 28 voters

Into Their Labours by John BergerInto The Blue by Robert Goddard
Into the List
79 books — 10 voters
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgesspocket-notebook by Mike ThomasWatership Down by Richard AdamsI'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue by Jon Naismith
Title in YELLOW font
607 books — 29 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William GoldingLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
20 books — 8 voters
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter HøegTravelling in a Strange Land by David ParkThe Birthday Boys by Beryl BainbridgeWhen the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan RhodesA Snow Garden and Other Stories by Rachel Joyce
Snow Day
153 books — 17 voters

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittBrothers by Ted van LieshoutWyrd Sisters by Terry PratchettLittle Brother by John McNeil
Books with Brother or Sister in the title
999 books — 58 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman
Books with Wife or Husband in the title
315 books — 25 voters

In His Own Write / A Spaniard in the Works by John LennonHow to Be Invisible by Kate BushOne Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil TennantCarp Fishing on Valium by Graham ParkerAutobiography by Morrissey
Books written by a musician (fiction or non-fiction) Popsugar 2019 Challenge
180 books — 12 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterAngels in America by Tony KushnerThe Accusation by BandiEngland, their England by A.G. Macdonell
Name of a Country in the Title
299 books — 29 voters

The Glass Room by Simon MawerChatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Piece of Art on Cover
72 books — 16 voters
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ... by Peter GeorgeHere Is Where We Meet by John BergerWhen the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan RhodesHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin HamidHow Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
Who What Why When Where How
2,322 books — 219 voters

A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig
International Booker Prize: Eligible Books 2020
193 books — 88 voters
The Octopus Museum by Brenda ShaughnessyWe Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner
The Most Beautiful Covers Of 2019
268 books — 247 voters

In a Strange Room by Damon GalgutTravelling in a Strange Land by David ParkTurbulence by David SzalayMonkey by Wu Cheng'enAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Travel literature
48 books — 11 voters
Bookshelf by Lydia PyneEye Chart by William P. GermanoEarth by Jeffrey Jerome CohenMagnet by Eva K. BarbarossaTree by Matthew Battles
Object Lessons series, Bloomsbury Books
117 books — 13 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessWatership Down by Richard AdamsHiroshima by John HerseyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Golden, Yellow, Orange, Bronze
527 books — 44 voters
Fury by Salman RushdieOther Stories and Other Stories by Ali SmithThe Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
Platinum, grey, steel book cover
202 books — 14 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs
Seventies Potpourri
120 books — 10 voters
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Unforgettable Characters Who Died Right Before My Eyes!
20 books — 6 voters

KES by Barry HinesThe pigeon by Patrick SüskindThe Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du MaurierGrief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max PorterThe Crow Road by Iain Banks
Books with birds on the front
128 books — 25 voters
Impossible Object by Nicholas MosleyDubliners by James JoyceTurbulence by David Szalay
Novels in Stories
10 books — 2 voters

The Pearl by John SteinbeckThe Diamond As Big As the Ritz by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh
Books with Jewellery or Gems in the Title
247 books — 13 voters
The Panopticon by Jenni FaganHag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Prison and After Prison
27 books — 8 voters

The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus MillsThe Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Books with Buses on the Cover
129 books — 9 voters
Born Free by Joy AdamsonNo Way But Gentlenesse by Richard Hines
Nature/Human Interaction Books
63 books — 5 voters

Billy Liar by Keith WaterhouseThe Liar by Stephen Fry
Books with the words lie/liar/liars/lying in the title
464 books — 34 voters
How Late It Was, How Late by James KelmanWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverOther Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Double Talk - Repeating Titles
7 books — 2 voters