2026 Reading Challenge

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Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng PhụngThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhAn Insignificant Family by Dạ NgânSpring Essence by Hồ Xuân HươngAn Anthology of Vietnamese Poems by Sanh Huynh
Vietnamese Literature In Translation
28 books — 3 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao XueqinThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2 by Cao Xueqin
Seeing China through Books
107 books — 34 voters

Iron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThis Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin FaustThe Second World War by Antony BeevorReconstruction by Eric Foner
Ta-Nehisi Coates Essential Reads
67 books — 5 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilMedea by EuripidesTales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
For Classicists and Those That Love Good Myths
54 books — 30 voters

Metamorphoses by OvidThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Oresteia by AeschylusThe Golden Ass by ApuleiusThe Aeneid by Virgil
Ancient Texts
41 books — 18 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,254 voters
City of God by Augustine of HippoThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusThe Confession of Saint Patrick by Patrick of IrelandThe Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of NursiaConfessions by Augustine of Hippo
The Best Books of the 5th Century
38 books — 64 voters

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatTehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourCensoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar MandanipourSavushun by Simin Daneshvar
Iranian Fiction
45 books — 53 voters
Hitch 22 by Christopher HitchensArguably by Christopher HitchensAnimal Farm / 1984 by George OrwellGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensWhy Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
You don't know Christopher Hitchens until you've read
127 books — 105 voters