2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Willow (35 Lists)



Black Box by Amos OzA Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
Best Israeli Reads
128 books — 98 voters
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughIn Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel ProustThe Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Ice Palace by Tarjei VesaasChrist Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 487 voters

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
2023 Literary Fiction Featuring Queer Men
49 books — 45 voters
Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki
2024 Literary Fiction Featuring Queer Men
46 books — 27 voters

The Looking-Glass Sisters by Gøhril GabrielsenThe Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Iván Repila
Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2016
152 books — 97 voters
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 4 by Cao XueqinThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 3 by Cao XueqinThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5 by Cao XueqinThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2 by Cao XueqinThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao Xueqin
Best Novels That Take Place in China
414 books — 1,096 voters

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Chinese Literature
321 books — 150 voters
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùHeaven Official's Blessing by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùGrandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùGrandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùGrandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
Seven Seas Danmei
136 books — 62 voters

Agostino by Alberto Moravia
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 233 voters
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
Sephardic Jewish Fiction
289 books — 23 voters

The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-MoldovánAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Vintage Novels & Memoirs About World War I
80 books — 54 voters
Bread Givers by Anzia YezierskaThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
Hasidism & Orthodox Judaism
261 books — 74 voters

La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
Classic Spanish Literature
47 books — 29 voters
The Butcher's Wife by Li AngA Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers by Hsiao Li-Hung
Taiwanese Literature
75 books — 52 voters

Embers by Sándor MáraiJourney by Moonlight by Antal SzerbFatelessness by Imre Kertész
20th Century Hungarian Literature
146 books — 189 voters
The Black Tulip by Alexandre DumasThe Assault by Harry Mulisch
Historical Fiction That Takes Place In The Netherlands
91 books — 56 voters

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,773 books — 2,168 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 854 voters

Lovers by Daniel Arsand
Ancien Regime Historical Fiction
21 books — 6 voters
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
r/fantasy's Official Underrated and Underread Fantasy
726 books — 1,089 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Literary Historical Fiction
1,138 books — 1,094 voters
Saint Joan by George Bernard ShawQueen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
Remarkable Historical Women in Fiction
451 books — 231 voters

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Historical Fiction - Spain / Portugal
131 books — 27 voters
The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. SingerDaniel Deronda by George EliotBread Givers by Anzia YezierskaThe World to Come by Dara HornExodus by Leon Uris
Jewish Historical Fiction non-Holocaust
313 books — 286 voters

Mélusine by Sarah MonetteThe Virtu by Sarah MonetteThe Mirador by Sarah MonetteCorambis by Sarah Monette
Best Fantasy Books with Gay Main Characters
1,267 books — 2,649 voters
The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
Books on the Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
71 books — 20 voters

The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Authors in Fiction
179 books — 43 voters
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThunder at Twilight by Frederic MortonA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Austro-Hungarian Empire
56 books — 54 voters


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