2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Virginia (12 Lists)



The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Ponder Heart by Eudora WeltyLight in August by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by
305 books — 115 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Books That Consumed My Childhood
453 books — 46 voters

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Native American History
76 books — 27 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters

The Black Flower by Howard BahrLincoln by Gore VidalThe March by E.L. DoctorowGilead by Marilynne RobinsonAndersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Civil War Novels
147 books — 74 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love
2,079 books — 2,692 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln by David Herbert DonaldStonewall Jackson by James I. Robertson Jr.Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. GrantThe Black Flower by Howard Bahr
American Civil War Books (fiction and nonfiction)
451 books — 256 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonA Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
100 books — 159 voters

The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen HarriganThree Roads to the Alamo by William C. DavisIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneGoodbye to a River by John Graves
Texas History
185 books — 39 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
10 Notorious Literary Slogs That Are Worth The Effort
10 books — 23 voters

Lincoln by David Herbert DonaldTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinPersonal Memoirs by Ulysses S. GrantNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThis Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
Best American Civil War Books
1,007 books — 980 voters
Lincoln by David Herbert DonaldTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.
Best Books on Abraham Lincoln
119 books — 78 voters