2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Renee (16 Lists)



Eight Lives by Susan HurleyYou Are the Message by Roger AilesThe Tale Teller by Anne HillermanLights All Night Long by Lydia FitzpatrickThe Demons of Schizophrenia by Kenneth Bain
Curtis Brown Creative Alumni List
50 books — 5 voters
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooBitch on Wheels by Gregg OlsenThe Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerHope by Amanda BerryThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Black Sheep Bookshelf
22 books — 4 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Memoir Lovers
219 books — 117 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerRoots by Alex HaleyBeloved by Toni Morrison
Books That Every African American Should Read (Huffington Post List)
181 books — 210 voters

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleInside the Minds of Serial Killers by Katherine RamslandHunting the Devil by Richard Lourie
Non-fiction books about Serial Killers
149 books — 159 voters
The Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyThe Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian BarryCal by Bernard MacLavertyThe Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Best Fiction Set in Ireland
815 books — 547 voters

Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
248 books — 279 voters
What-the-Dickens by Gregory MaguirePretty Monsters by Kelly LinkBog Child by Siobhan DowdThe Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
2009 Printz Contenders
59 books — 1,450 voters

All I Could Bare by Craig SeymourStrip City by Lily BuranaGirlvert by Joseph Mattson
Sex Worker Memoirs
196 books — 108 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,245 books — 4,417 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
704 books — 1,055 voters
Not Without My Daughter by Betty MahmoodyHalf Broke Horses by Jeannette WallsA Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,103 books — 1,951 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousFlowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,196 books — 11,301 voters
The Lifeguard by Richie Tankersley CusickThe Dark and Deadly Pool by Joan Lowery NixonNicole by Candice F. RansomParty Line by A. BatesThe Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Young Adult Series Books published in the '80s & '90s
696 books — 576 voters

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,759 books — 1,638 voters
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,060 voters