2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Kerry Booth (12 Lists)



Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisBird by Bird by Anne LamottNaked by David Sedaris
Best Book of Essays
400 books — 181 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,376 books — 1,501 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
266 books — 46 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Bone Feud by Wynne McLaughlinA Different Kind of Fire by Suanne SchaferTrue Grit by Charles PortisDeadman's Fury by Linell Jeppsen
Best Western Historical Fiction
175 books — 96 voters
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickWatchmen by Alan MooreFatherland by Robert HarrisCoilhunter by Dean F. WilsonJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Alternate History
358 books — 676 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickWatchmen by Alan MooreFatherland by Robert HarrisThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
768 books — 1,293 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,040 voters

Short Stories for the Night Stand by Debra WattesA World of Possibility by Christopher ShieldsCross Country by Rick CopperA World of Romance by Christopher ShieldsGetting Lucky by J.L. Beck
Indie Books - Short-Story Collections/Anthologies
654 books — 840 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
S&L Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles
1,706 books — 2,210 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,171 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