2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Carol (41 Lists)



A Little Trickerie by Rosanna PikeIn Memoriam by Alice Winn
Extraordinarily Rated
75 books — 4 voters
Saltblood by Francesca de Tores
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Eligible Books
143 books — 39 voters

The Future by Naomi AldermanThe Round House by Louise ErdrichA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganHappiness Falls by Angie KimBrotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
2024: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2024
6,108 books — 351 voters
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverThe Bullet That Missed by Richard OsmanBabel by R.F. Kuang
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,961 books — 515 voters

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate AtkinsonStone Blind by Natalie HaynesThe Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Eligible Books
95 books — 124 voters
First Love by Gwendoline RileyThe Green Road by Anne EnrightRuby by Cynthia BondThe Dark Circle by Linda GrantThe Undertaking by Audrey Magee
Women’s Prize shortlists 1996 to present
162 books — 5 voters

Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCell by Stephen KingThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Dystopia!
1,218 books — 2,747 voters
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteOryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
Very Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
331 books — 593 voters

A God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes GowarSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 579 voters
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Eligible Books
89 books — 84 voters

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #23 Social Justice Nonfiction
49 books — 25 voters
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #5 Protagonist Older than 50
60 books — 42 voters

Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith BryanThe Echo Chamber by John BoyneSnow Country by Sebastian FaulksEnglish Pastoral by James RebanksThe Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Sky arts book club 2021
18 books — 5 voters
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Greek/Roman Classic/Myth/Retellings
180 books — 55 voters

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie JonesNo One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview (January - March)
84 books — 116 voters
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi DaréThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahStay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 695 voters

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #2 Author from Eastern Europe
59 books — 22 voters

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #19 Cover Designed by a Woman
63 books — 22 voters
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Women of Troy Retellings
25 books — 15 voters

A Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
About the Trojan War
274 books — 259 voters
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberHere be Dragons by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Historical Fiction or non fiction books NOT about WW2.
345 books — 21 voters

Circe by Madeline Miller
Mythology retellings
93 books — 11 voters
Larry's Party by Carol ShieldsThe Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtThe Idea of Perfection by Kate GrenvilleHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Reading Women- 25 Years of The Women's Prize for Fiction
25 books — 1 voter

The Tea Rose by Jennifer DonnellyThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanThe Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Family Saga Novels
825 books — 860 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneHeidi by Johanna SpyriThe BFG by Roald DahlMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,429 voters

The Five by Hallie RubenholdWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books "By or About" British Women
365 books — 26 voters
Stormbird by Conn IgguldenThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanWinter Pilgrims by Toby ClementsThe Lady of the Rivers by Philippa GregoryThe Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Historical fiction: The Wars of the Roses
87 books — 183 voters


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