2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter Mathews (247 Lists)



The Waves by Virginia Woolf
1931 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonAnima Rising by Christopher MooreWhat We Can Know by Ian McEwanWorld Pacific by Peter MannWe Live Here Now by C.D. Rose
Peter's 2025 Literary Fiction
45 books — 2 voters

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
1887 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1852 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
1892 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1874 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

Villette by Charlotte BrontëBleak House by Charles Dickens
1853 Literary Fiction
2 books — 1 voter
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Gothic Books of All Time
587 books — 3,503 voters

Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor DostoevskySybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
1845 Literary Fiction
2 books — 1 voter
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1826 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

The Red and the Black by StendhalThe Dream of Scipio by Iain PearsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Peter's Favorite Novels
10 books — 1 voter
Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
1806 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte
1772 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1795 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

Vathek by William Beckford
1786 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
James by Percival EverettService Model by Adrian TchaikovskyAll Our Yesterdays by Joel H. MorrisDeath of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven CarrollThe Winner by Teddy Wayne
Peter's 2024 Literary Fiction
72 books — 1 voter

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
1771 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
Caleb Williams by William GodwinThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
1794 Literary Fiction
3 books — 2 voters

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
1796 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding
1743 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

The Ebony Tower by John FowlesMy Life as a Man by Philip RothThe Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell
1974 Literary Fiction
3 books — 1 voter
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
1944 Literary Fiction
1 book — 1 voter

The Bell of the World by Gregory DayIn Memoriam by Alice WinnAlways Crashing in the Same Car by Lance OlsenAn Ungrateful Instrument by Michael MeehanPenance by Eliza Clark
2023 Peter's Literary Fiction
69 books — 1 voter
This Devastating Fever by Sophie CunninghamThe Axeman's Carnival by Catherine ChidgeySea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelSaint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark HaberLessons by Ian McEwan
2022 Peter's Literary Fiction
65 books — 1 voter

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard HughesMoonchild by Aleister Crowley
1929 Literary Fiction
5 books — 1 voter

Cloudstreet by Tim WintonOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyBreath by Tim WintonRiders in the Chariot by Patrick WhiteCarpentaria by Alexis Wright
Miles Franklin Award Winners
27 books — 1 voter
At the Edge of the Solid World by Daniel Davis WoodCloudstreet by Tim WintonOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyThe Yandilli Trilogy by Rodney HallN by John Alan Scott
Peter's Top 20 Australian Literary Fiction
20 books — 1 voter

Second Place by Rachel CuskDaughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroMaxwell's Demon by Steven HallDead Souls by Sam Riviere
2021 Peter's Literary Fiction
44 books — 3 voters
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
1742 Literary Fiction
1 book — 2 voters


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