2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nancy Martira (17 Lists)



Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGheeYellowface by R.F. KuangChain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahI Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca MakkaiThe Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2024
125 books — 129 voters
Angle of Repose by Wallace StegnerRed Sky at Morning by Richard BradfordYou Got to Dance with Them What Brung You by Molly IvinsDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Reading the Southwest
253 books — 47 voters

All Involved by Ryan GattisFourth of July Creek by Smith HendersonDelicious Foods by James HannahamHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Reading Outside the Bubble
18 books — 7 voters
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul CurtisCharlotte and the Quiet Place by Deborah SosinJamaica's Find by Juanita HavillP.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
#1000BlackGirlBooks: Suggestions for Marley Dias's Amazing Book Drive
1,322 books — 381 voters

Delicious Foods by James HannahamDid You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggThe Sellout by Paul BeattyFates and Furies by Lauren GroffA God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
283 books — 1,364 voters
A God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroGet in Trouble by Kelly LinkWar of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher RobinsonA Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
195 books — 545 voters

The Secret Place by Tana FrenchStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelPanic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview II - Fall and Winter
70 books — 191 voters
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. KingThe House of Silk by Anthony HorowitzThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas MeyerThe Italian Secretary by Caleb CarrThe Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Best Sherlock Holmes Pastiches
481 books — 500 voters

Waiting by Debra GinsbergThe Undertaking by Thomas LynchBorn Standing Up by Steve MartinHeat by Bill Buford
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
818 books — 407 voters
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm TóibínFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene
Colorful Book Titles
669 books — 62 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClinePulphead by John Jeremiah SullivanGalore by Michael CrummeyWe the Animals by Justin TorresThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Amazon.com Best Books of 2011: The Top 100
100 books — 175 voters
Naked by David SedarisKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThis Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,824 books — 6,350 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingTree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,604 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,316 books — 15,568 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisMatilda by Roald DahlA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,428 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,040 voters

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,934 voters