2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Avery (33 Lists)



Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry
NPR Best Books of 2017
113 books — 25 voters
Iron Kingdom by Christopher ClarkRites of Peace by Adam ZamoyskiBaader-Meinhof by Stefan AustGoethe - Kunstwerk des Lebens by Rüdiger Safranski
German History
596 books — 154 voters

Working by Robert A. Caro
Fresh Air 2019
42 books — 8 voters
The Case Against Free Speech by P.E. Moskowitz
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2019
371 books — 90 voters

Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum
Nonfiction on Victorian Spiritualism
83 books — 21 voters
The Book Nobody Read by Owen GingerichThe Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-LeeThe Lost Gutenberg by Margaret Leslie DavisThe Venetian Qur'an by Pier Mattia TommasinoThe Real Rule of Four by Joscelyn Godwin
Books about incunabula and post-incunabula
9 books — 1 voter

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XUbik by Philip K. Dick
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,779 voters
The Neverending Story by Michael EndeOrientalism by Edward W. SaidWorking by Studs Terkel
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,955 books — 1,880 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,433 voters
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,680 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Outsider by Colin Wilson
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike DavisFamine by Cormac Ó GrádaThree Famines by Tom KeneallyPoverty and Famines by Amartya Sen
Historic Famines and Their Causes
21 books — 5 voters

Twilight's Last Gleaming by John Michael GreerSoumission by Michel HouellebecqDisrupted by Dan LyonsGriftopia by Matt Taibbi
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,689 books — 14,189 voters
The Body by Yasuo YuasaGod and Man in the Qur'an by Toshihiko IzutsuThe Structure of Ethical Terms in the Quran by Toshihiko IzutsuSufism and Taoism by Toshihiko IzutsuCreation and the Timeless Order of Things by Toshihiko Izutsu
Reading Japanese philosophy
136 books — 19 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMomo by Michael Ende
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters
What Is Islam? by Shahab Ahmed
dirtbag summer reading list
27 books — 16 voters

Reframing 1968 by Martin Halliwell1968 by Ramón González FérrizAstral Weeks by Ryan H. WalshHippie by Paulo CoelhoGlobal Imagination of 1968 by George Katsiaficas
Books about 1968 protests published in 2018
29 books — 3 voters
Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky
The Russian Revolution
73 books — 19 voters

October by China MiévilleThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Essential Books on Communism
195 books — 34 voters
The Book Nobody Read by Owen GingerichJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters

Lenin by Victor SebestyenOctober by China MiévilleThe Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekinLenin on the Train by Catherine MerridaleCaught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
Books about 1917 published in 2017
22 books — 6 voters
The Gilded Rage by Alexander ZaitchikThe Unwinding by George Packer
Politics/Culture: Books Relevant to the 2017 World Scenario
143 books — 29 voters

The Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerThe Gilded Rage by Alexander Zaitchik
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1,169 books — 518 voters
The Unwinding by George PackerEvicted by Matthew Desmond
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
522 books — 275 voters

H.P. Lovecraft by Michel HouellebecqDark Matters by Nick DunnDark Age America by John Michael GreerPlanet of Slums by Mike DavisMolecular Red by McKenzie Wark
Problems of Late Capitalism
176 books — 27 voters
The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff
Intercollegiate Studies Institute: The 50 Best Books of the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
50 books — 14 voters

Darwin's Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer
Best Books against Darwinism
199 books — 60 voters
Against Method by Paul Karl FeyerabendRigor Mortis by Richard F. HarrisThe Trouble with Physics by Lee SmolinUnhinged by Daniel J. CarlatAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skepticism of 21st century science
27 books — 5 voters


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