2026 Reading Challenge

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyEmma by Jane AustenGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Year 3 of 4-Year History Reading Cycle
51 books — 16 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettIvanhoe by Walter ScottThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Year 2 of 4-Year History Reading Cycle
121 books — 28 voters

The Histories by HerodotusI, Claudius by Robert GravesClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesPersian Fire by Tom HollandHomer's Daughter by Robert Graves
Year 1 of 4-Year History Reading Cycle
93 books — 16 voters
My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukSnow by Orhan PamukIstanbul by Orhan PamukThe Bastard of Istanbul by Elif ShafakBirds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
162 books — 207 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters
The Histories by HerodotusA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboNobody's Princess by Esther M. FriesnerThe Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis KlauseFroi of the Exiles by Melina MarchettaA Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn
Books You Wish More People Knew About
17,384 books — 10,358 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonThe Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtSchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Eastern Europe
166 books — 77 voters

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićBosnian Chronicle by Ivo AndrićPoland by James A. MichenerOgniem i mieczem by Henryk SienkiewiczThe Golem by Isaac Bashevis Singer
History through Novels: Pre-1900s Eastern Europe
25 books — 9 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 258 voters


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