2026 Reading Challenge

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White Teeth by Zadie SmithSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Lonely Londoners by Sam SelvonOn Beauty by Zadie SmithGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Black British Literature (fiction)
119 books — 83 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoReservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Native American Fiction
837 books — 639 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Magical Realism
442 books — 639 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
731 books — 478 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 892 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwanOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodRoom by Emma Donoghue
Man Booker Shortlist
272 books — 81 voters

White Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe History of Love by Nicole KraussIn the Woods by Tana French
Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read
50 books — 107 voters
Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Literature by Japanese Women
158 books — 152 voters

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo HopkinsonIn the Name of Salome by Julia AlvarezAll Decent Animals by Oonya KempadooTithe Of Blood by Esther SladeA Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia
addfyah Caribbean women writers
73 books — 7 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters

Wolf Hustle by Cin FabréThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Best Fiction and Memoirs by Authors of Color
428 books — 188 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 263 voters


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