2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dennis (14 Lists)



Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Contemporary Cult Fiction
493 books — 449 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
705 books — 881 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Literary Fiction
1,544 books — 1,330 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCandide by VoltaireSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsChess Story by Stefan Zweig
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,445 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Cantos by Ezra PoundFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 363 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,655 books — 120,500 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante AlighieriParadise by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 355 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,377 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWatchmen by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,766 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceNausea by Jean-Paul SartreCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,043 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Abandoned Books
1,464 books — 1,463 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
76,476 books — 284,500 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,761 books — 10,408 voters