2026 Reading Challenge

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The Secret History by Donna TarttPossession by A.S. ByattGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersCampusland by Scott JohnstonLucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Academia in Literature
136 books — 90 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

Religion Explained by Pascal BoyerThe Evolution of Gods by Ajay KansalSupernatural Agents by Ilkka PyysiäinenThe Belief Instinct by Jesse BeringIn Gods We Trust by Scott Atran
Essential Readings in the Cognitive Science of Religion
111 books — 39 voters
Geek Love by Katherine DunnOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Library at Mount Char by Scott HawkinsAnnihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Strange and Unusual Novels
101 books — 107 voters

State of Wonder by Ann PatchettBel Canto by Ann PatchettMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerRoom by Emma Donoghue
Women's Prize Winners and Nominees
150 books — 6 voters
The Idiot by Elif BatumanThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerFingersmith by Sarah WatersMilkman by Anna Burns
All Shortlist Nominations for the Women's Fiction Prize
147 books — 4 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverThe Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winners
22 books — 14 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark HaddonCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
713 books — 1,360 voters