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Summer Books

Description: Books that for some reason associate with a summer mood, feeling or mindset.
Members: 9 participating members
alex68, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, merrystar, souloftherose, dara85, Dilara86

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,902 members

216 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963

2

by Sylvia Plath

27,413 members

484 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

8,997 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963

4

by Ray Bradbury

7,394 members

185 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

5

25,964 members

614 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,053 members

372 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Stephen King

10,776 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,717 members

120 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

9

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,714 members

184 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

10

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,630 members

281 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

11

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,998 members

191 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

12

The Penderwicks

by Jeanne Birdsall

5,298 members

186 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, souloftherose

13

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

2,885 members

128 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Dilara86

14

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,515 members

1,418 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

15

Water for Elephants

29,001 members

1,165 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

by Gillian Flynn

21,320 members

1,520 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,195 members

172 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

18

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,145 members

260 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

6,764 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

20

by Kristin Hannah

4,511 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

21

4,117 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

22

by Edith Wharton

2,077 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

23

by Kristin Hannah

1,981 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

24

by David Baldacci

1,482 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

25

The Greengage Summer

by Rumer Godden

720 members

17 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

26

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,446 members

460 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

27

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,865 members

490 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

28

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,072 members

316 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

29

by Stephen King

21,254 members

403 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

30

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

20,917 members

596 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,030 members

261 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

32

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,626 members

181 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

33

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares

10,781 members

253 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

34

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

8,735 members

622 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

35

The Forgotten Garden

7,778 members

439 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

36

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,514 members

286 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

37

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,411 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by John Banville

5,329 members

168 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

39

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,223 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

40

by Jennifer Weiner

4,874 members

81 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

41

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace

4,716 members

73 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

42

Call Me by Your Name

by André Aciman

3,993 members

146 reviews

4

Member: alex68

43

by Peter Benchley

3,903 members

141 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

44

Along for the Ride

by Sarah Dessen

3,694 members

157 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

45

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,492 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

46

Bonjour Tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

3,288 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

47

The Summer I Turned Pretty

3,024 members

141 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

48

by Michel Houellebecq

2,790 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

49

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2,685 members

143 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

50

by Niccolò Ammaniti

2,263 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

51

The Emperor of Ocean Park

by Stephen L. Carter

2,234 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

52

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

1,858 members

135 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

53

by Alessandro Baricco

1,640 members

30 reviews

4

Member: alex68

54

The Vacationers

1,401 members

105 reviews

3.2

Member: alex68

55

by J. Courtney Sullivan

1,381 members

85 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: alex68

56

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

by Peter Cameron

1,173 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

57

by Colson Whitehead

1,060 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

58

by Leila Meacham

1,008 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

59

The Secret Country

875 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Arturo's Island

by Elsa Morante

756 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

61

The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

by John Bellairs

719 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

Armageddon Summer

671 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Key to the Treasure

by Peggy Parish

648 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Julio Cortázar

567 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

65

Wild Strawberries

by Angela Thirkell

520 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

66

by Alberto Moravia

450 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: alex68

67

The Night of the Moonbow

by Thomas Tryon

313 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Angela Thirkell

298 members

9 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

69

The Florios of Sicily

by Stefania Auci

166 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

70

by Mary Rodgers

122 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Margaret Mazzantini

116 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

72

by Vitaliano Brancati

65 members

3 reviews

2.9

Member: alex68

73

Family Resemblances

34 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Edith Wharton

3 members

Member: alex68

75

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,141 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
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