2026 Reading Challenge

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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienDune by Frank HerbertThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Novels mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton
173 books — 125 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersDays Without End by Sebastian BarryThe Nix by Nathan HillExit West by Mohsin Hamid
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope HodgsonThe Haunter of the Dark by H.P. LovecraftThe Devil Rides Out by Dennis WheatleyThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisTales of Unease by Arthur Conan Doyle
Wordsworth's Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
78 books — 16 voters
Death in Spring by Mercè RodoredaHigh Tide by Inga ĀbeleZone by Mathias ÉnardThe Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio FernándezMaidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Open Letter Books
125 books — 49 voters

Slade House by David MitchellHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesWhat Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Trial by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,029 books — 954 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyOld Filth by Jane GardamA Novel Bookstore by Laurence CosséMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 206 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 263 voters
Moby Dick by Herman MelvilleGravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
50 books — 105 voters


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