2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by qingtian (12 Lists)



A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnWhat Then Must We Do? by Gar AlperovitzHow to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin WrightDebt by David GraeberThe Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara
An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Democratic Socialism (i.e. economic democracy)
128 books — 15 voters
Spinster by Kate BolickThe Lonely City by Olivia LaingAlone Time by Stephanie RosenbloomHow to Be Alone by Lane MooreSolitude by Michael Harris
The Good, Single Life
18 books — 13 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,826 books — 2,214 voters
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie BrownsteinGirl in a Band by Kim GordonClothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv AlbertineGirls to the Front by Sara MarcusThe Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms
Grrrls
69 books — 59 voters

Second Term by J.M. AdamsOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderSacred Economics by Charles EisensteinDeep Economy by Bill McKibbenNo Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy — Solutions: Reasoning & Alternatives
437 books — 78 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline Réage
Literary Smut
146 books — 108 voters

On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. Burroughs
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters
The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe American Heiress by Daisy GoodwinThe Tea Rose by Jennifer DonnellyTo Marry an English Lord by Gail MacCollThe Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
Gilded Age Literature
151 books — 77 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,428 voters
No Logo by Naomi KleinAmusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanThe Overspent American by Juliet B. SchorStatus Seekers by Vance PackardShiny Objects by James A. Roberts
Consumerism
112 books — 30 voters


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