2026 Reading Challenge

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The Power of the Dog by Don WinslowCaught Stealing by Charlie HustonL.A. Confidential by James EllroyGalveston by Nic PizzolattoAmerican Tabloid by James Ellroy
New School of Noir
201 books — 269 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael FinkelParty of One by Anneli RufusThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best books about Solitude (non-fiction)
40 books — 50 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
101 books — 263 voters

The Terror by Dan SimmonsAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDark Matter by Michelle PaverWho Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Polar Horror
61 books — 103 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,138 books — 2,377 voters