2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Carly (14 Lists)



The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,242 books — 3,411 voters
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
100 Books about Science and Engineering for Grown-Ups
121 books — 34 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyWorld War Z by Max BrooksOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Passage by Justin Cronin
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,207 books — 8,948 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineDealing with Dragons by Patricia C. WredeThe Amber Spyglass by Philip PullmanThe Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
3,073 books — 8,676 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenPaper Towns by John GreenEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
2,665 books — 12,167 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,983 voters

Yes Please by Amy PoehlerBossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherYou're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
Best Show Business Memoirs or Biographies
437 books — 387 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesHillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance1984 by George OrwellA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
524 books — 276 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Young Adult Books
13,093 books — 80,178 voters
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter BoxallBook Lust by Nancy PearlEx Libris by Anne FadimanA Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. BasbanesThe Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,036 books — 529 voters

The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward GoreyAmphigorey by Edward GoreyUglies by Scott Westerfeld
Best Book Cover Art
12,382 books — 7,090 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerHow the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreBatman by Frank MillerBlankets by Craig ThompsonBlack Hole by Charles Burns300 by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,453 books — 6,768 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Stranger by Albert CamusLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters