2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ted (23 Lists)



Meditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh KaplanHasidism by Moshe IdelJewish With Feeling by Zalman Schachter-ShalomiMeditation from the Heart of Judaism by Avram DavisMindful Jewish Living by Jonathan Slater
Best Kabbalah Lists
24 books — 19 voters
The Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonHerzog by Saul BellowThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Jews in Literature
884 books — 312 voters

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet by Melvyn C. GoldsteinMapping the Tibetan World by Atsushi KanamaruCivilized Shamans by Geoffrey SamuelFreedom in Exile by Dalai Lama XIV
Books about Tibet, nonfiction or fiction
188 books — 72 voters
Discipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,234 books — 8,063 voters

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by NāgārjunaThe Empty Mirror by Janwillem van de WeteringMoon in a Dewdrop by DōgenThe Lotus Sutra by AnonymousThe Way of the Bodhisattva by Śāntideva
A Buddhist Reading List
897 books — 1,178 voters
The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham CahanCall It Sleep by Henry RothThe Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed ShapiroThe Brooklyn Novels by Daniel Fuchs
Tales of New York City
1,516 books — 1,223 voters

Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon
Novels about the Founding of Israel
17 books — 21 voters
The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. SingerRediscovering Traces of Memory by Jonathan Webber
Best of Polish History
205 books — 48 voters

Mipham's Beacon of Certainty by Jamgön MiphamThe Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön HerukaThe Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep by Tenzin WangyalThe Life of Shabkar by ShabkarThe Way of the Bodhisattva by Śāntideva
Best Books on Tibetan Buddhism
141 books — 54 voters
The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Best Holocaust Literature
112 books — 109 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz KafkaCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Castle by Franz KafkaCall It Sleep by Henry Roth
The Best of Jewish Authors
730 books — 193 voters
The Chosen by Chaim PotokKim by Rudyard KiplingCall It Sleep by Henry RothCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Nicomachean Ethics by AristotleOpen Secret by John MoyneDiscipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,501 books — 5,760 voters
Chuang Tzu by ZhuangziTaoism by Isabelle Robinet
Best Books on Taoism
108 books — 130 voters

Practically Religious by Ian ReaderLiquid Life by William R. LaFleurShinto in History by John Breen
Best Books About Japan
516 books — 357 voters
Silence by Shūsaku EndōThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiDeep River by Shūsaku Endō
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,251 voters

The Family Mashber by Der NisterThe Book of Paradise by Itzik MangerDybbuk by S. AnskyTales of Mendele the Book Peddler by Mendele Mocher SforimThe Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro
Originally Written in Yiddish
57 books — 12 voters
The Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön HerukaThe Land of Bliss, the Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless ... by Luis O. Gomez
Buddhism
128 books — 35 voters

Franz Kafka's The Castle by David FishelsonThe Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nāgārjuna
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,726 voters
The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. SingerDybbuk by S. AnskyAdventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son by Sholom AleichemThe Family Mashber by NisterThe Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro
Yiddish Literature
76 books — 42 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,591 books — 120,355 voters
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiMoon in a Dewdrop by Dōgen
Insightful Zen Buddhism Books
159 books — 135 voters

Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
Medieval thought from the university to the café
170 books — 25 voters