2026 Reading Challenge

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The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakTatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
Historical Fiction: Russia
307 books — 476 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman DoidgeThe Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. RamachandranHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerPhantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
Neuroscience for Non-Scientists
110 books — 118 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 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 Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature
356 books — 195 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Bird by Bird by Anne LamottWriting Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Best Books on Writing
798 books — 1,327 voters

The Gray House by Mariam PetrosyanVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDay of the Oprichnik by Vladimir SorokinThe Big Green Tent by Lyudmila UlitskayaThe Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Translated Modern Russian Literature
27 books — 9 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakHeart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
199 books — 268 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelAtonement by Ian McEwanAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
Best 20 Books of the Last 20 Years, Chosen by The Independent Bath Literature Festival
19 books — 20 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,068 books — 971 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,356 books — 1,586 voters
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur HermanMary Queen of Scots by Antonia FraserOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Celts by Peter Berresford EllisGreyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
Scottish History
286 books — 65 voters


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