2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Elizabeth (22 Lists)



Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Humorous Romance Books
3,152 books — 6,696 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
YA Novels of 2012
1,237 books — 10,179 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,986 voters
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen RussellFangirl by Rainbow RowellEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionLexicon by Max Barry
Best Books Published in 2013
3,586 books — 7,162 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Best Books of 2012
3,521 books — 9,203 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisBlue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
The Christian Intellect
1,272 books — 837 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Best Children's Books
5,307 books — 6,706 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Young Adult Books
13,093 books — 80,183 voters

White Noise by Don DeLilloLes Misérables by Victor HugoMoll Flanders by Daniel DefoeThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,609 books — 13,139 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksMusicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Radiolab Suggested Readings
180 books — 240 voters
On Writing by Stephen King
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
818 books — 407 voters

Little Bee by Chris CleaveCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,934 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisBlue Like Jazz by Donald MillerTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Recommended Books (Besides the Bible) Written by Christian Authors
4,313 books — 3,514 voters

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriFragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwanDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David SedarisUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 21,969 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOn Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwanBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,375 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medicine and Literature
1,846 books — 2,006 voters