2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Janine (15 Lists)



A Rainha Ginga e de Como os Africanos Inventaram o Mundo by José Eduardo AgualusaReturn to the Source by Amílcar CabralUnity and Struggle by Amílcar CabralThe Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,068 books — 971 voters
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017
220 books — 258 voters

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,970 books — 2,837 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezCapitães da areia by Jorge Amado
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Multicultural General Fiction
588 books — 376 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
African Fiction
600 books — 428 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonDona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,521 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Fiction of Milan Kundera
12 books — 121 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,492 books — 5,744 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Worst Ending
272 books — 561 voters
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
India: Fiction
319 books — 322 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,588 voters