2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Julia (20 Lists)



Light on Yoga by B.K.S. IyengarAutobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa YoganandaThe Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali by SatchidanandaThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar
Yoga Teacher Training
92 books — 108 voters
The Power Is Within You by Louise L. Hay
Best Books on Emotional Health and Healing
176 books — 149 voters

Shahnameh by Abolqasem FerdowsiRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámDivan of Hafez by Hafez
Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
481 books — 195 voters
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Osho – "Books I Have Loved"
120 books — 110 voters

The Prophet by Kahlil GibranSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,596 books — 120,323 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail SholokhovИстория одного города by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian Social History
292 books — 87 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Twelve Chairs by Ilya IlfAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail SholokhovThe Amphibian by Alexander Belyaev
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
199 books — 268 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Post WWII Soviet Lit
57 books — 74 voters

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books I Will Never Forget
10,706 books — 7,699 voters
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Best Middle Ages Books
1,224 books — 1,705 voters

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
Influential Books
293 books — 143 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
Anthropology Great Books (Now Includes Books That Are Just OK)
80 books — 28 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoIvanhoe by Walter Scott
Best Historical Fiction
7,423 books — 25,605 voters
Divan of Hafez by HafezThe Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James MorierThe Black Book by Orhan PamukShahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsiرباعيات خيام by Omar Khayyám
Best Middle East Fiction
432 books — 472 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,610 books — 13,142 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,524 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Odyssey by Homer
Best Books Ever
76,335 books — 283,993 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters