2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Fatima (22 Lists)



Albion's Seed by David Hackett FischerIn Small Things Forgotten by James DeetzMigration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World by Alison GamesThe Times of Their Lives by James DeetzMyne Owne Ground by T.H. Breen
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
144 books — 55 voters
Faces in the Water by Janet FramePillars of Salt by Fadia FaqirThe Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El SaadawiHallucinating Foucault by Patricia DunckerIn the Realms of the Unreal by John G. Oakes
Reading About Psychiatric Wards
47 books — 96 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynI'jaam by Sinan AntoonIn the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Locked up - Books set in fictional prisons
54 books — 19 voters
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn WaughTom and Viv by Michael HastingsGut Symmetries by Jeanette WintersonYellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by Janet FrameThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Unhappy Marriages
485 books — 289 voters

Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansHellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda DowlingLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireSymbolism by Robert GoldwaterVictorian Sexual Dissidence by Richard Dellamora
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
The Queue by Basma Abdel AzizOtared by Mohammed RabieI'jaam by Sinan Antoon
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,749 voters

To the River by Olivia LaingThe Marsh Arabs by Wilfred ThesigerA River Sutra by Gita MehtaWaterlog by Roger DeakinMudlark River by Simon Wilcox
Flow: A Watery Reading List
118 books — 12 voters
Filth by William A. CohenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Broad Street Cholera Epidemic
15 books — 6 voters

Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry MillerOn the Edge by Edward St. AubynThe Yage Letters by William S. BurroughsArt Objects by Jeanette WintersonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was
876 books — 749 voters
The Queue by Basma Abdel AzizDawn by Octavia E. ButlerThe Fish Can Sing by Halldór LaxnessSecond Person Singular by Sayed KashuaThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,223 books — 68,468 voters

Cruising Utopia by José Esteban MuñozBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaMelancholia and Moralism by Douglas Crimp
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
828 books — 484 voters
Mastering Arabic 1 by Jane WightwickMastering Arabic by Jane WightwickEasy Arabic Grammar by Jane Wightwick
Best books for learning Arabic
17 books — 20 voters

Regulating Aversion by Wendy BrownThe Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa LoweThe World Turned Upside Down by Christopher HillThe Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad by Eqbal AhmadAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 359 voters
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa WolfArcadia by Tom StoppardThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstNow and Then by William CorlettKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Best Past-Present Books
379 books — 552 voters

Albion's Seed by David Hackett FischerA People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensFire in the Belly by Cynthia CarrMetamorphoses by Ovid
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,996 voters
The Queue by Basma Abdel AzizI'jaam by Sinan AntoonThe Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-AzzawiThe Corpse Washer by Sinan AntoonAdama by Turki Al-Hamad
Arabic Literature in English Translation
202 books — 54 voters

In Search of London by H.V. Morton
London Calling
1,234 books — 645 voters
Nightwood by Djuna BarnesGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,773 books — 2,168 voters

Possession by A.S. ByattFrisk by Dennis CooperHenry and June by Anaïs Nin
Worst Movies from the Best Books
26 books — 21 voters
The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaSleeping Tiger by Rosamunde PilcherQuiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
Books not to read
319 books — 181 voters