2026 Reading Challenge

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



The Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerSlow Days, Fast Company by Eve BabitzBeneath the Underdog by Charles MingusThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerEve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
322 books — 289 voters
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettMayor of Castro Street, The by Randy ShiltsMcTeague by Frank NorrisCool Gray City of Love by Gary KamiyaAmericans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr
Best Books Set in San Francisco
169 books — 124 voters

The Wrong Stuff by Bill LeeDock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald HallFive Seasons by Roger AngellA Well-Paid Slave by Brad SnyderHave Glove, Will Travel by Bill Lee
Loud Uniforms and Fake Grass: '70s Baseball
85 books — 7 voters
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehouseLeave It to Psmith by P.G. WodehouseUncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. WodehouseRight Ho, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseSummer Moonshine by P.G. Wodehouse
Best P.G. Wodehouse
106 books — 144 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellGhostwritten by David MitchellBlack Swan Green by David MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
David Mitchell
11 books — 107 voters
Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensLondon by Peter AckroydThe Way We Live Now by Anthony TrollopeBleak House by Charles DickensThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
London Calling
1,230 books — 645 voters

England's Dreaming by Jon SavageRotten by John LydonRedemption Song by Chris SalewiczPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilUnknown Pleasures by Peter Hook
Three Chords, A Black Leather Jacket, and a Pawn Shop Guitar - Your Punk Rock Identikit
199 books — 98 voters
Dickens by Peter AckroydBorstal Boy by Brendan BehanSomething Like an Autobiography by Akira KurosawaThe Wrong Stuff by Bill LeeRedemption Song by Chris Salewicz
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,827 books — 6,353 voters

Bleak House by Charles DickensThe Way We Live Now by Anthony TrollopeMiddlemarch by George EliotAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyUnderworld by Don DeLillo
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,996 voters
The Wrong Stuff by Bill LeeDock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald HallVeeck As In Wreck by Bill VeeckMaybe I'll Pitch Forever by Leroy Satchel PaigeA Day In The Bleachers by Arnold Hano
Best Baseball Books
749 books — 656 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceOn the Road by Jack KerouacAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,609 books — 13,138 voters
England's Dreaming by Jon SavageRedemption Song by Chris SalewiczMiles by Miles DavisLife by Keith RichardsRotten by John Lydon
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,442 books — 1,344 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellGhostwritten by David MitchellThe End of Vandalism by Tom DruryHerzog on Herzog by Paul CroninDivisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,374 voters
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehousePuckoon by Spike MilliganPnin by Vladimir NabokovThe End of Vandalism by Tom DruryThe Sopranos by Alan Warner
Best Humorous Books
4,328 books — 7,909 voters