2026 Reading Challenge

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



DomiKNITrix by Jennifer StaffordPretty in Punk by Alyce Benevides
Geek Crafts
228 books — 37 voters
Below Stairs by Margaret PowellLady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona CarnarvonThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read in place of watching Downton Abbey
258 books — 123 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Best Opening Sentence
219 books — 150 voters
Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich
President Obama's Summer Reading List
343 books — 170 voters

Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region by Doris SloanAssembling California by John McPhee
The California Naturalist
48 books — 21 voters
The Earth After Us by Jan ZalasiewiczThe Mountains of Saint Francis by Walter ÁlvarezBasin and Range by John McPheeNorth Pole, South Pole by Gillian TurnerThe Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Best Geology Books
127 books — 70 voters

Supercapitalism by Robert B. ReichAftershock by Robert B. Reich
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
935 books — 1,099 voters
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto EcoAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,136 voters

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix PotterThe Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport by Laura Lee HopeThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. SeussThe Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix PotterBabar and His Children by Jean de Brunhoff
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,428 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
100 books — 296 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pickwick Papers by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardySchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Best Books To Further Your Education
221 books — 128 voters
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G. Brinton
What to read when you've finished Jane Austen
519 books — 675 voters