2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Danielle Waverly (13 Lists)



Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best American History Books
2,124 books — 2,495 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,961 books — 515 voters

Last Call by Elon Green
Gay Book Club
204 books — 11 voters
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 579 voters

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughJunky by William S. Burroughs
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
532 books — 378 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction and Other (Mostly) True Things
784 books — 426 voters

Zami by Audre Lorde
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
820 books — 478 voters
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsStone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,772 books — 2,167 voters

Maid by Stephanie LandKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
818 books — 407 voters
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
704 books — 1,055 voters

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLike Me by Chely Wright
Lesbian Memoirs
280 books — 138 voters
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughRunning with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,103 books — 1,951 voters

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,824 books — 6,349 voters