2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bobbi Baker (17 Lists)



One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,213 books — 68,388 voters
American Pastoral by Philip RothHenderson the Rain King by Saul BellowThe Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Assistant by Bernard MalamudThe Collected Stories by Grace Paley
Favorite Jewish Ficton
45 books — 22 voters

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle EvansThe Angel on the Roof by Russell BanksA Permanent Member of the Family by Russell BanksSeven Gothic Tales by Isak DinesenNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
464 books — 261 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Beloved Books I Utterly Despise
26 books — 6 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Books To Stay Away From
94 books — 6 voters
An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesOil! by Upton SinclairPère Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Books To Read When You're A Captive Audience
10 books — 3 voters

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataA Personal Matter by Kenzaburō ŌeUnderground by Haruki MurakamiKwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,248 voters
Backing Into Forward by Jules FeifferThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorComplete Works of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis SingerOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Books You Should Read Before You Try To Write Your Own
24 books — 20 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,567 books — 120,219 voters
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de BalzacPère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacLost Illusions by Honoré de BalzacCousin Bette by Honoré de BalzacA Harlot High and Low by Honoré de Balzac
All about Balzac.
46 books — 21 voters

Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,225 books — 5,215 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Known World by Edward P. JonesRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 21,963 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling
Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am
2,549 books — 3,723 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsThe Awakening by Kate ChopinGumbo Ya-Ya by Lyle Saxon
Best New Orleans Books
422 books — 346 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichWalden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
National Outdoor Book Award winners, selected titles
29 books — 36 voters