2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bernadette (72 Lists)



Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,924 books — 2,080 voters
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
Best YA/New Adult Contemporary Romance
2,188 books — 4,527 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction and Other (Mostly) True Things
784 books — 426 voters
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnUglies by Scott WesterfeldLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Giver by Lois LowryEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,237 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Glad my teacher made me read this book
340 books — 402 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters

El Marsam Cookbook by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Best Ethnic Cookbooks
317 books — 145 voters
El Marsam Cookbook by Ginda Ayd SimpsonBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and GardensThe Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos
Best Cookbooks
1,439 books — 1,106 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd SimpsonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,307 books — 912 voters
Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
The Best Spiritual Autobiographies
153 books — 160 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Independent Memoirs
115 books — 142 voters
Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Memoirs by Women
3,016 books — 3,031 voters

Deeply Rooted in Faith & Family by Ginda Ayd Simpson
Italy
978 books — 496 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Historical Lesbian Fiction
251 books — 254 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Afghan-fiction
41 books — 53 voters
Reached by Ally Condie
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,516 books — 15,083 voters

Reached by Ally CondieSpeaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
Anticipated Books of 2012
542 books — 999 voters
Zaat by Sonallah IbrahimTaxi by Khaled Al KhamissiThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
English Books on Modern Egypt
179 books — 51 voters

Best Unappreciated Books
4,356 books — 2,202 voters
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany1/4 جرام by Essam Youssef
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 471 voters

The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanEast, West by Salman Rushdie
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,009 books — 1,448 voters
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Books That Changed My World
3,277 books — 3,185 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,987 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best for Book Clubs
14,651 books — 18,490 voters

Uglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Giver by Lois LowryPretties by Scott WesterfeldHoles by Louis SacharEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Best Young Adult Fiction
3,596 books — 6,911 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Afghanistan in Literature
220 books — 263 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThree Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 21,968 voters
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Fantasy Goodreads for 9-12 years
817 books — 580 voters


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