2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gabrielle (13 Lists)



Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul TherouxGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordEmperor of China by Kangxi
Best Books About China
744 books — 585 voters
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 3 by Cao XueqinMonkey by Wu Cheng'enThe Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterScience and Civilisation in China, Volume 2 by Joseph NeedhamEmperor of China by Kangxi
Best books to read about China
173 books — 106 voters

The Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisThe Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
Best Historical Mystery
2,074 books — 4,536 voters
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington IrvingThe Ornament of the World by María Rosa Menocal
Mediterranean Melting Pot (I): Medieval Spain
139 books — 62 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Swan Thieves by Elizabeth KostovaThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
You Want to Read in 2010
1,079 books — 1,975 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius NorwichThe Ottoman Centuries by John Patrick Douglas BalfourMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukIstanbul by Orhan PamukByzantium, 330-1453 by Robin Cormack
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
162 books — 207 voters
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Alienist by Caleb CarrCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery
364 books — 306 voters

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Five Things We Cannot Change by David RichoSelected Writings by John RuskinConfessions by Augustine of HippoA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Sensitive Blood-Drinkers, Sexy Bad-Boys and Gallant Scottish Noblemen... or NOT
633 books — 107 voters
Quicksilver by Neal StephensonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonSacred Games by Vikram ChandraThe Volcano Lover by Susan SontagMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Couldn't Put The Book Down
16,852 books — 16,640 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Biographic Fiction
734 books — 304 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoNiccolò Rising by Dorothy DunnettOrlando by Virginia WoolfI, Claudius by Robert GravesAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,589 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters