2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Daniel M (20 Lists)



The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanDon't Look Now by Daphne du MaurierNightmare Alley by William Lindsay GreshamLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisThe Chrysalids by John Wyndham
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 892 voters
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
WWII Historic Fiction
1,459 books — 1,537 voters

Swan Song by Robert McCammonWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,240 books — 3,409 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,317 books — 15,588 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Top 100 New Classics
262 books — 417 voters
The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienUlysses by James JoyceLet the Great World Spin by Colum McCannThe Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabeAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Best Irish Books
686 books — 603 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,932 voters

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter AckroydEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 118 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
American Literature
519 books — 175 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
627 books — 2,755 voters
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Short Stories
1,757 books — 1,039 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiEmpire Falls by Richard Russo
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,370 voters
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Tiptree Books
112 books — 76 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Books you wish they would teach in high school
118 books — 208 voters
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Best Christian Sci-Fi/Fantasy
488 books — 535 voters

Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
World War II Fiction
1,397 books — 2,030 voters
The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Dalkey Archive by Flann O'BrienDracula by Bram StokerIn the Woods by Tana French
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 720 voters