2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Michele (6 Lists)



Poems for the Hazara by Kamran Mir HazarExotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonAngels Cried by Stephen L. WilsonA World of Verse by Christopher ShieldsRevel by Michael Indemaio
Best poetry Anthologies
200 books — 80 voters
In the Country of Men by Hisham MatarThe Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-KoniLibyan independence and the United Nations; by Adrian PeltExit the Colonel by Ethan ChorinBarack Obama by Illumination Publishing
Libya
35 books — 12 voters

The Great Game by Peter HopkirkGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordThe Empire of the Steppes by René GroussetThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Central Asia
281 books — 87 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,707 books — 3,738 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,826 books — 2,214 voters
Life in a Medieval City by Frances GiesCathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Year 1000 by Robert LaceyThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Nonfiction: Daily Life in The Middle Ages
169 books — 26 voters