2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mursalin Mosaddeque (25 Lists)



A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca SolnitThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirGender Trouble by Judith ButlerThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Feminist Orchestra Potential Reading List
506 books — 572 voters
Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond QueneauThank You for Not Reading by Dubravka UgrešićTlooth by Harry MathewsZoo or Letters Not About Love by Victor Shklovsky
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters

The Storyteller by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Green House by Mario Vargas LlosaIn Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
All about Vargas Llosa
29 books — 35 voters
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz ChastHow About Never—Is Never Good for You? by Robert Mankoff
Books by New Yorker Cartoonists
85 books — 16 voters

Shame by Salman RushdieMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Books about the Indian Subcontinental Partition (fiction and nonfiction)
90 books — 99 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Latin American Books
105 books — 46 voters

The Address Book by Sophie CalleSophie Calle by Christine MacelThe Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
Contemporary Art
20 books — 13 voters
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
Flavorwire's Contemporary South Asian Writers You Should Know
23 books — 28 voters

In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas LlosaGitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
376 books — 281 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.2 and Above
908 books — 450 voters
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela VidaA God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
195 books — 545 voters

Candide by Voltaire
Short & Sweet Treats Under 250 Pages
968 books — 366 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAnimal Farm by George OrwellHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Great Short Short Books
581 books — 509 voters

The Chimes by Anna Smaill
Man Booker 2015 Long List
13 books — 174 voters
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day GeorgePrincess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George
Classic Fairytales Retold
266 books — 227 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
1,934 books — 2,692 voters
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Best Highland/Scotland Romance Novels
668 books — 2,180 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Eastern Europe
166 books — 77 voters
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Odessa File by Frederick ForsythOur Man in Havana by Graham GreeneFrom Russia with Love by Ian FlemingCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
Best Spy Novels
1,294 books — 2,257 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Excellence in sarcasm
415 books — 654 voters
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
World War II Fiction
1,393 books — 2,023 voters
1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,236 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontëবনলতা সেন by Jibanananda Das
100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers Picks
1,394 books — 1,726 voters