2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Leigh (12 Lists)



Fun Home by Alison BechdelTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah WatersFingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,772 books — 2,168 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Everyone's Read It But Me
802 books — 4,325 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonBorrowed Time by Paul MonetteThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan PoeAngels in America by Tony Kushner
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 577 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerThe Great War and Modern Memory by Paul FussellThe Ghost Road by Pat BarkerThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
776 books — 599 voters

Regeneration by Pat BarkerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Ghost Road by Pat BarkerThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerThe Ghost Road by Pat BarkerThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerBorder Crossing by Pat BarkerDouble Vision by Pat Barker
Top Pat Barker Books
11 books — 8 voters

Millennium Approaches by Tony KushnerPerestroika by Tony KushnerFifth of July by Lanford WilsonFalsettos by William FinnAs Is by William M. Hoffman
Best Gay Plays
59 books — 55 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,326 books — 24,668 voters

The Incredible Journey by Sheila BurnfordWatership Down by Richard AdamsMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienRikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
Best Animal Books in Fantasy
279 books — 504 voters
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm TóibínThe Folding Star by Alan HollinghurstFingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters

The Ghost Road by Pat BarkerThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Sea by John Banville
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,986 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerAngels in America by Tony KushnerThe Invention of Love by Tom StoppardThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Gay Fiction
2,663 books — 3,866 voters