2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by John Kroll (10 Lists)



The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksAwakenings by Oliver SacksPolio by David M. OshinskyThe Panic Virus by Seth MnookinThe Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Medicine and Literature
1,849 books — 2,009 voters
Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisGrowing Up by Russell BakerPersonal History by Katharine Graham
Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies
121 books — 203 voters

The American Way of Death by Jessica MitfordThe American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica MitfordPoison Penmanship by Jessica MitfordHons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Focus On The Mitford Girls
62 books — 29 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichWorking by Studs TerkelPersonal History by Katharine GrahamRivethead by Ben Hamper
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
821 books — 408 voters

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis SkinnerThe Road from Coorain by Jill Ker ConwayAnd So It Goes by Linda Ellerbee
Memoirs by Women
3,026 books — 3,038 voters
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis SkinnerCrazy Salad by Nora Ephron
Funny Women Memoirs
456 books — 1,554 voters

Rumpole on Trial by John MortimerRumpole's Last Case by John Mortimer
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,136 books — 763 voters
Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growt... by Dave HillThe Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus by Graham Chapman
Written by Comedians
221 books — 109 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,624 books — 120,403 voters
My Ántonia by Willa CatherThe Jungle by Upton SinclairO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,011 books — 1,451 voters