2026 Reading Challenge

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Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden KeefeBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill GatesThe Code Breaker by Walter IsaacsonA Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2021
1,014 books — 202 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,991 books — 1,284 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 — 2,215 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,316 books — 15,568 voters

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. JamesHome Before Dark by Riley SagerOne of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManusAll Your Twisted Secrets by Diana UrbanEight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Mystery & Thriller 2020
367 books — 569 voters
The Maidens by Alex MichaelidesSurvive the Night by Riley SagerArsenic and Adobo by Mia P. ManansalaEvery Last Fear by Alex FinlayIf I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier
Mystery & Thriller 2021
325 books — 561 voters

Kololo Hill by Neema ShahThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeIf I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Eligible Books
84 books — 84 voters
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,707 books — 3,739 voters
Miracle Creek by Angie KimWe Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos RuffinBlack Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesIf, Then by Kate Hope DayThe Last Book Party by Karen Dukess
Anticipated 2019 Literary Fiction
221 books — 332 voters

Lanny by Max PorterFreshwater by Akwaeke EmeziSpring by Ali SmithOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongLost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019
175 books — 186 voters
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensBecoming by Michelle ObamaEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanEducated by Tara WestoverThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
2019: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,509 books — 187 voters


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