2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Morné (11 Lists)



Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudThe Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj ŽižekPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminIlluminations by Walter Benjamin
Critical Theory
83 books — 36 voters
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonGender Trouble by Judith ButlerThe History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality, Volume 2 by Michel FoucaultContingency, Hegemony, Universality by Judith Butler
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 voters

Maurice by E.M. ForsterA Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodThe Hours by Michael CunninghamA Home at the End of the World by Michael CunninghamThe Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Best Gay Fiction
2,663 books — 3,866 voters
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,986 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
625 books — 2,752 voters
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienEragon by Christopher Paolini
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,209 books — 25,727 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Best Non Fiction I've Read
110 books — 19 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best books where the main character/characters are a child
65 books — 21 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,147 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
132 books — 193 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,136 voters