2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Samichtime (6 Lists)



Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinStar Wars by James LucenoThe Elementals by Michael McDowellThe Store by Bentley LittleStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,224 books — 68,400 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiLolita by Vladimir NabokovIt by Stephen King
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,206 books — 11,305 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books Ever
76,303 books — 283,840 voters
I, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Stainless Steel Rat by Harry HarrisonStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,359 books — 24,670 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingRed Dragon by Thomas Harris2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Amityville Horror by Jay AnsonThe Omen by David Seltzer
Best Horror Novels
2,085 books — 5,450 voters
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters