2026 Reading Challenge

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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
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

Taru sormusten herrasta by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Unknown Soldier by Väinö LinnaRonja, ryövärintytär by Astrid LindgrenMuumipeikko ja pyrstötähti by Tove Jansson
Suomalaisten suosikit
304 books — 58 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
659 books — 566 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick RothfussHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,060 books — 9,901 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,222 books — 1,703 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,985 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Medieval and Renaissance historical fiction
463 books — 420 voters