2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sarah Leonard (26 Lists)



Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David SedarisA Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffat
Can't Wait Books of 2010
1,233 books — 10,131 voters
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yellowest Books Ever
1,803 books — 579 voters

The Collected Poems by Wallace StevensComplete Works by Arthur RimbaudThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Complete Poems by John KeatsThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Best Poets
520 books — 390 voters
The Collected Poems by Wallace StevensHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Best Poetry Books
2,983 books — 2,424 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerOther Voices, Other Rooms by Truman CapoteThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,573 voters
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson DaviesThe Rebel Angels by Robertson DaviesMercury by Hope Larson
Canada
361 books — 155 voters

Crazy by Benjamin LebertThe Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
YA "Body" Books
102 books — 81 voters
Crazy by Benjamin LebertThe Raging Quiet by Sherryl JordanBrothers of the Head by Brian W. Aldiss
Books that Embody an Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience.
210 books — 146 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettCrazy by Benjamin LebertBrothers of the Head by Brian W. AldissThe Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads
1,170 books — 1,059 voters
The Children's Book by A.S. ByattThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Art & Artists in Fiction
930 books — 1,105 voters

Shades of Grey by Jasper FfordeThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The "Can't Wait" Book of '09
443 books — 2,031 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,604 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisStuff White People Like by Christian LanderCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Books that Make you Laugh
3,505 books — 5,045 voters
Sheila Rae, the Brave by Kevin Henkes
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,847 books — 10,518 voters

The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth KnoxThe Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultFire from Heaven by Mary RenaultThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,587 voters
Maurice by E.M. ForsterThe Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund WhiteAt Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillThe Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth KnoxThe Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Best Gay Fiction
2,663 books — 3,866 voters

You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons - The World on... by Mo WillemsNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,021 books — 3,941 voters
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters
1,959 books — 5,984 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,100 voters
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,425 books — 10,162 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOther Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Best Southern Books
826 books — 739 voters

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Best Young Adult Books
13,093 books — 80,180 voters
A Separate Peace by John KnowlesThe Chosen by Chaim PotokThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Required Reading in High School
813 books — 1,288 voters