2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jennifer (52 Lists)



Bitch by Lucy Cooke
Biology
162 books — 26 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Female Naturalist Writers
284 books — 62 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Race, Conservation, and the Outdoors
124 books — 14 voters
Falastin by Sami TamimiThe New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
Best Middle Eastern & North African Cookbooks
136 books — 17 voters

Secondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichIf Not, Winter by Sappho
Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors
231 books — 37 voters
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #8 Memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman
37 books — 12 voters

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #17 Woman in Politics
71 books — 43 voters
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters

West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
536 books — 180 voters
My Own Country by Abraham VergheseBloodroot by Amy GreeneOther by Catherine Pritchard ChildressFlight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverA Death in the Family by James Agee
Books Set in Tennessee
489 books — 128 voters

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,008 books — 1,447 voters
The Lion's Mouth by Anne Holt
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #10 Crime Novel or Thriller in Translation
45 books — 19 voters

The Land of Green Plums by Herta MüllerHow We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka DrakulićCafé Europa by Slavenka Drakulić
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #2 Author from Eastern Europe
59 books — 22 voters
O Pioneers! by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa CatherEcology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse RayProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverA Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #18 Rural Setting
95 books — 31 voters

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #9 Neurodivergent Author
53 books — 30 voters
The Vandana Shiva Reader by Vandana ShivaThe Living Mountain by Nan ShepherdLab Girl by Hope JahrenBroadsides from the Other Orders by Sue HubbellTrace by Lauret Savoy
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #11 About the Natural World
75 books — 33 voters

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian by Madhur JaffreyMy Two Souths by Asha GomezIn Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #4 Cookbook by a Woman of Color
113 books — 18 voters
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Classics by People of Color
104 books — 60 voters

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #6 A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
77 books — 26 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
371 books — 242 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhat You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Books for Post-Election Understanding
198 books — 141 voters
The Americans by Robert FrankDiane Arbus by Diane ArbusLet Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Exceptional Photography Books*
561 books — 196 voters

Eating the Empire by Troy Bickham
Commoditgraphs
101 books — 29 voters
Charcuterie by Michael RuhlmanPreserves by Pam CorbinThe Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
Essential Preserving Books
27 books — 7 voters

The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey
Books for History Geeks
375 books — 41 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mexican Literature
390 books — 196 voters

English Cottage Gardening by Margaret HenselGeoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton
Cottage Garden
22 books — 6 voters
The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll by Richard Bisgrove
Best Books for Gardeners
133 books — 51 voters


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