2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by marie (27 Lists)



The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,147 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 694 voters

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Best Books Ever
76,194 books — 283,317 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe End of October by Lawrence Wright
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,989 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen KingDoomsday Book by Connie WillisBlackout by Connie WillisAll Clear by Connie WillisThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,957 books — 5,244 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Books I Read for School and Ended Up Loving
231 books — 307 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Required Reading in High School
813 books — 1,289 voters
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Pacific Northwest Books
913 books — 609 voters

The Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareSilas Marner by George EliotHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
466 books — 1,589 voters
River of the Wolves by Stephen W. MeaderAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,848 books — 10,515 voters

The Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Books that evoke the South
479 books — 158 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,573 voters

A Painted House by John GrishamThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
books with compelling young narrators
217 books — 176 voters
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonaldAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canadian Fiction
1,039 books — 605 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,956 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLolita by Vladimir NabokovOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,137 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,209 books — 25,727 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,872 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingWhere the Heart Is by Billie LettsThe Firm by Robin Waterfield
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,687 voters
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Voices & Sounds - Best Read Alouds for Young Children
984 books — 885 voters

The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,226 books — 1,635 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,587 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters