2026 Reading Challenge

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



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerCompulsion by Meyer LevinThe Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Retro Reads
162 books — 132 voters
Finn by Jon ClinchTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Books About Bookstores
641 books — 807 voters
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffBooks by Larry McMurtry
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 514 voters

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace StegnerAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
142 books — 33 voters
Angle of Repose by Wallace StegnerThe Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner's Western Storybook
35 books — 10 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Books You've Probably Never Read
618 books — 411 voters
The Meadow by James GalvinFencing the Sky by James GalvinDoc by Mary Doria RussellThe Revenant by Michael PunkeThe Big Rock Candy Mountain, Part 2 of 2 by Wallace Stegner
Fictional works about the American West
73 books — 37 voters

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
85 books — 343 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 270 voters

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
World War II Fiction
1,391 books — 2,020 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukFrom Here to Eternity by James JonesSophie’s Choice by William Styron
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters

Paradise Alley by Kevin BakerCold Mountain by Charles FrazierAndersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
American Civil War Books (fiction and nonfiction)
451 books — 256 voters
Shadow Country by Peter MatthiessenParadise Alley by Kevin Baker
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,650 books — 3,592 voters

The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
Best Historical Mystery
2,071 books — 4,532 voters
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,427 books — 2,346 voters

Shadow Country by Peter MatthiessenThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 204 voters
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Dog Lovers List
364 books — 242 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
644 books — 279 voters
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,687 voters

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Four Corners Country
330 books — 139 voters
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Best Westerns
1,376 books — 1,501 voters