2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Lilenthal (8 Lists)



One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEscape from Camp 14 by Blaine HardenCancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
The Gulag Medley
220 books — 52 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerFive Days at Memorial by Sheri FinkColumbine by Dave CullenDead Wake by Erik LarsonIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Disasters, Tragedies, and Accidents
201 books — 77 voters

Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-FentonI Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay DupuisFive Little Indians by Michelle GoodWhen We Were Alone by David Alexander RobertsonNo Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen
Residential Schools
74 books — 32 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
622 books — 417 voters

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormickFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngNot Even My Name by Thea HaloWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchTears of the Desert by Halima Bashir
Books for Genocide Project
221 books — 72 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNight by Elie Wiesel
My Country, the Enemy
393 books — 341 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienA Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two by Michael G. KramerMagenta by John Payton FodenConfederates by Thomas KeneallyAfter Dunkirk by Lee Jackson
Plight of a Nation
1,147 books — 400 voters