2026 Reading Challenge

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The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
Signs Taken for Wonders by Franco MorettiProfessor Borges by Jorge Luis BorgesPoetry and Designs by William BlakeAnatomy of Criticism by Northrop FryeThe Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
Works of Literary Theory And Criticism
90 books — 7 voters

Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantOn the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich SchillerAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoThe Republic by Plato
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
190 books — 76 voters
Sophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Republic by PlatoThe Story of Philosophy by Will DurantA History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand RussellSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Philosophy Introductions
223 books — 281 voters

The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea EliadeThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William JamesA History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 by Mircea EliadeNew Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. HanegraaffLa Biographie Du Prophète Mouhammad, Le Nectar Cacheté by Ar-Rahik
Religious studies
158 books — 39 voters
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by J.R.R. TolkienThe Road to Middle-Earth by Tom ShippeyJ.R.R. Tolkien by Tom ShippeyThe Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by J.R.R. TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
Tolkienology
75 books — 38 voters

The Price of Salt by Claire MorganOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAnnie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Lesbian novels from before 1990
250 books — 113 voters
Briar Rose by Jane YolenTam Lin by Pamela DeanSnow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. WredeJack the Giant Killer by Charles de LintThe Nightingale by Kara Dalkey
Fairy Tale Series
8 books — 28 voters