2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lavinia (12 Lists)



The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9 by Lavinia Spalding
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,203 books — 4,188 voters
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
favorite non-fiction
2,796 books — 1,157 voters

Whose Panties are These? More Misadventures from Funny Women ... by Jennifer L. LeoDays and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road by WellerDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerVagabonding by Rolf Potts100 Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Favorite Travel Books
2,021 books — 3,941 voters
Vagabonding by Rolf PottsWriting Away by Lavinia SpaldingEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
473 books — 1,136 voters

With a Measure of Grace by Blake SpaldingThe Botany of Desire by Michael PollanComing Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,227 books — 1,636 voters
With a Measure of Grace by Blake SpaldingThe Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers
Restaurant Reads
215 books — 100 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerBel Canto by Ann PatchettAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,374 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,783 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters
Bird by Bird by Anne LamottWriting Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergWild Mind by Natalie GoldbergThunder and Lightning by Natalie GoldbergWriting Away by Lavinia Spalding
Best Books on Writing
798 books — 1,327 voters

What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang KhyentseThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal RinpocheThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema ChödrönWriting Away by Lavinia Spalding
A Buddhist Reading List
897 books — 1,178 voters
With a Measure of Grace by Blake Spalding
Best Cookbooks
1,439 books — 1,106 voters