2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by TK421 (9 Lists)



Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 398 voters
The Stories of John Cheever by John CheeverTales of the Unexpected by Roald DahlThe Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Short Stories
1,758 books — 1,040 voters

Confederates in the Attic by Tony HorwitzFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,061 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayOn Writing by Stephen KingThe Writing Life by Annie DillardEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Best Books on Creative Life
508 books — 621 voters

Up in Honey's Room by Elmore LeonardThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
Best Male Character
3,165 books — 2,947 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSacred Games by Vikram ChandraAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages
106 books — 99 voters

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCarrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Best Horror Books by People Other Than Stephen King
1,553 books — 1,504 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters

It by Stephen KingPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithWorld War Z by Max Brooks’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Monster Books!
576 books — 521 voters