2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Ronald Barba (12 Lists)



The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,307 books — 1,560 voters
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiTreasury of the True Dharma Eye by DōgenZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsThe Zen Teaching of Huang Po by Huang PoHardcore Zen by Brad Warner
Zen Buddhism: The Essential Books
59 books — 28 voters

Meditations by Marcus AureliusPolitics by AristotleThe Republic by PlatoThe United States of Elfin by The Silver ElvesThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Theory, Politics, etc
105 books — 13 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 492 voters

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer YudkowskyWorm by WildbowThe Metropolitan Man by Alexander WalesThree Worlds Collide by Eliezer YudkowskyWorth the Candle by cthulhuraejepsen
Rational Fiction
183 books — 289 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoySwann's Way by C.K. Scott MoncrieffCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pompous Books to Read in Public
307 books — 153 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,572 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,218 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
595 books — 308 voters


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