2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sharon (15 Lists)



World Made by Hand by James Howard KunstlerParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
530 books — 723 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteA Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,317 books — 15,588 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Gay Fiction
2,664 books — 3,869 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,484 books — 14,740 voters

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweShutter Island by Dennis Lehane
What We've Read So Far In 2010
4,981 books — 1,784 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Southern Literature
1,343 books — 2,574 voters

Under the Dome by Stephen King
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,996 voters
Cavedweller by Dorothy AllisonBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Best Southern Books
826 books — 739 voters

Dune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,432 books — 24,675 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,758 books — 25,989 voters

Beauty by Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperParadise by Toni MorrisonParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Feminist Fiction
1,500 books — 2,674 voters
Paradise by Toni MorrisonStones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Oprah's Book Club Picks
124 books — 2,203 voters

Belong to Me by Marisa de los SantosPeople of the Book by Geraldine BrooksThe Hour I First Believed by Wally LambChange of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,780 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters

Best Books Ever
76,434 books — 284,266 voters