2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by B Walters (12 Lists)



The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
701 books — 879 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Recognitions by William GaddisWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 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

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov1984 by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)
106 books — 51 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

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau1984 by George OrwellThe Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. WattsSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
80 Books that will transform your thinking forever [High Existence]
89 books — 23 voters
The Lean Startup by Eric RiesThe Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggRework by Jason FriedGetting Things Done by David AllenDrive by Daniel H. Pink
Codecademy Recommended Reading
42 books — 40 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
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. ChambersGalveston by Nic PizzolattoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTime is a Flat Circle by Melissa Milazzo
HBO's True Detective
123 books — 115 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters


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