2026 Reading Challenge

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Ben Roth's Philosophical Novel Lists
94 books — 8 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Nature Writing
252 books — 50 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanThe Overstory by Richard PowersWild by Cheryl Strayed
Nature Published in Decade: 2010s
256 books — 56 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Fall by Albert CamusHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

The Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle EvansHomeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarA Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
Best of: Fino's Pulitzer 2021 Picks: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
54 books — 3 voters
The Great Influenza by John M. BarryDeadliest Enemy by Michael T. OsterholmCrisis in the Red Zone by Richard PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Pandemic!: How Diseases Move
70 books — 11 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneThe Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian GreenePale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Cosmology
215 books — 189 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilEverybody Lies by Seth Stephens-DavidowitzThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana ZuboffData and Goliath by Bruce SchneierIrresistible by Adam Alter
Scary Tech?: Big Data, Surveillance, Information Overload, Tech Addiction, Propaganda, Dark Money...
189 books — 74 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNight by Elie Wiesel
My Country, the Enemy
393 books — 341 voters
The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen KentA Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
Best of the Salem Witch Trials (fiction and nonfiction)
98 books — 197 voters


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