2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Barb (11 Lists)



Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Modern Gothic
713 books — 1,360 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,790 books — 16,509 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklBlink by Malcolm GladwellOutliers by Malcolm GladwellProust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Radiolab Suggested Readings
180 books — 240 voters
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiMommie Dearest by Christina CrawfordChariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken
Guilty Pleasures - Crap You're Embarrassed to Love
399 books — 420 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,423 books — 10,201 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiThe Collector by John Fowles
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,319 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Alienist by Caleb CarrLondon by Edward RutherfurdMila 18 by Leon Uris
Best Historical Fiction
7,427 books — 25,604 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Worst Books of All Time
8,094 books — 19,875 voters

Imajica by Clive BarkerYou Can't Go Home Again by Thomas WolfeStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,591 books — 120,355 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Books I Regret Reading
2,294 books — 3,225 voters

Imajica by Clive BarkerBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinRebecca by Daphne du MaurierJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Best Books Ever
76,343 books — 284,140 voters