2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Duncan (24 Lists)



Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Things by Dave BergThe Portable Mad by MAD MagazineViva Mad! by Sergio AragonésSergio Aragones Mad As the Devil by Sergio AragonésThe Vintage Mad by Al Feldstein
Best MAD Magazine Books
146 books — 21 voters
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester BangsEngland's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Best Books on Rock and Roll
891 books — 1,278 voters

Indestructible Hulk, Vol. 1 by Mark WaidEssential Rampaging Hulk, Vol. 1 by Doug MoenchMarvel Masterworks by Stan Lee
Best of the Hulk
89 books — 48 voters
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
Best Fantasy of the 70s
141 books — 309 voters

The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans by Rick GearyThe Borden Tragedy by Rick GearyThe Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rick GearyThe Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Rick GearyThe Case of Madeleine Smith by Rick Geary
The Best of Rick Geary
39 books — 4 voters
The Squire's Tale by Gerald MorrisThe Legend of the King by Gerald Morris
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,442 voters

Showcase Presents by John AlbanoShowcase Presents by Gardner Francis FoxShowcase Presents by Jerry SiegelShowcase Presents by Gardner Francis FoxShowcase Presents by Gardner Francis Fox
DC Comics: Showcase Presents I
102 books — 8 voters
The Right Stuff by Tom WolfeJohn Glenn by John GlennReturn to Earth by Buzz Aldrin
Space Race! Books
308 books — 138 voters

The First Book of Lankhmar by Fritz LeiberElric by Michael MoorcockThe Conan Chronicles by Robert E. HowardSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
66 books — 114 voters
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. ForesterThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Sailing Cruising
280 books — 198 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareCandide, or Optimism by VoltaireOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics
595 books — 308 voters
Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange
Addicts
271 books — 350 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters
JSA, Vol. 1 by James RobinsonJSA, Vol. 3 by David S. GoyerShowcase Presents by Gardner Francis FoxShowcase Presents by Gardner Francis FoxHawkworld (Hawkman) by Timothy Truman
Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Hawkwoman, Hawkworld, etc.
45 books — 3 voters

Grifter's Game by Lawrence BlockHelp I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E. WestlakePimp by Ken Bruen361 by Donald E. WestlakeDutch Uncle by Peter Pavia
Hard Case Crime - Imprint
131 books — 46 voters
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll by Jim MillerExile On Main Street by Robert GreenfieldThings The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver EverettPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti Smith
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,442 books — 1,344 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Animal Factory by Edward BunkerMidnight Express by Billy Hayes
Prison Books
525 books — 245 voters
In Our Time by Ernest HemingwayA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,130 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe 39 Steps by John BuchanOn Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian FlemingThunderball by Ian FlemingAshenden by W. Somerset Maugham
Good Old British Thrillers
150 books — 71 voters
Vietnam by Stanley KarnowThe Short-Timers by Gustav HasfordIf I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'BrienGoing After Cacciato by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayI, Claudius by Robert GravesWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldCocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse
Cheers!
285 books — 78 voters
The Last Lion by William ManchesterThe Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. TuchmanA World Lit Only by Fire by William ManchesterA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanKrakatoa by Simon Winchester
Best History Books
3,709 books — 3,739 voters

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)
313 books — 199 voters
Rivers of Time by L. Sprague de CampJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Dinosaur Fantasy and Science Fiction
103 books — 162 voters