2026 Reading Challenge

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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
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 voters

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
246 books — 221 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese Literature
310 books — 388 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,321 books — 5,842 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles DickensEmma by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPersuasion by Jane Austen
The English/British Novels {Fiction} Part 1
150 books — 45 voters
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenBlack Beauty by Anna Sewell
Penguin/Puffin Chalk
6 books — 10 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeMiddlemarch by George EliotAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Coralie Bickford-Smith Hardcover Books
70 books — 18 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

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotLord of the Flies by William Golding
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 70 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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