2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tom (25 Lists)



One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,779 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDracula by Bram StokerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,873 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiA Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,251 voters
The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
Best Cold War Spy Books
46 books — 59 voters

Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
Ass-Kicking Action Thrillers
240 books — 86 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Mask of Dimitrios by Eric AmblerA Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
Julian Symons 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
102 books — 47 voters

The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainNo Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Lady in the Lake by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Pages of Noir: The Books that Became Film Noir
102 books — 98 voters

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
Best Spy Novels
1,298 books — 2,261 voters
The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarryA Spy by Nature by Charles CummingTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Espionage
989 books — 1,024 voters

State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2012 Tournament of Books
16 books — 245 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownUncommon Dissent by William A. DembskiGuilty by Ann CoulterHigh Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
554 books — 601 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,317 books — 15,583 voters
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Favorite Harlan Coben
28 books — 193 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Fantasy Books
1,681 books — 1,986 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesA Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,679 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Stand by Stephen KingI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 577 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAtonement by Ian McEwanRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 479 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesMystic River by Dennis Lehane
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,370 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettPhantom Lady by Cornell WoolrichI Married a Dead Man by William Irish
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
703 books — 880 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain1984 by George OrwellHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Banned Books: Public Domain
61 books — 60 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Magus by John FowlesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Books Ever
76,336 books — 284,120 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,591 books — 120,350 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters