2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Francis D (58 Lists)



Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray
Historical Fiction 2022
407 books — 431 voters
The Officers' Ward by Marc DugainTwo Storm Wood by Philip Gray
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
541 books — 390 voters

The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
The Former East Germany, GDR, DDR
177 books — 84 voters
Zoia's Gold by Philip Sington
Best Past-Present Books
378 books — 551 voters

Zoia's Gold by Philip SingtonLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Must read!
112 books — 17 voters
Carriers by Patrick Lynch
Best Science Thrillers
216 books — 236 voters

The Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García MárquezBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelHistory of Beauty by Umberto EcoOpen City by Teju Cole
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 21,963 voters
The Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamSplendor in the Grass by F. Andrew LeslieThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 892 voters

The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
Books Named After Books
45 books — 26 voters
The Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonThe Joke by Milan KunderaUnder the Frog by Tibor FischerThe Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Eastern Europe
166 books — 75 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Books I wish I had never read
1,285 books — 1,339 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Female Lead Characters
4,847 books — 5,887 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Feel Guilty That I Haven't Read
227 books — 157 voters
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,604 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenBleak House by Charles Dickens
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 170 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books with Unreliable Narrators
501 books — 489 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Younger Woman/Older Man
584 books — 674 voters
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,222 books — 6,121 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 988 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceNostromo by Joseph ConradTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Best Male Character
3,165 books — 2,944 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Classics Library
634 books — 522 voters

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLes Misérables by Victor HugoFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,421 books — 10,161 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLord of the Flies by William GoldingCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books Ever
76,258 books — 283,636 voters
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip RothCollected Stories by William FaulknerWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 204 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If They Can't Take A Joke by Tom WatersBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dark Humor
729 books — 1,631 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

The Sportswriter by Richard FordThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters
The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,924 books — 2,079 voters


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