2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Traveller (20 Lists)



1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,323 books — 5,841 voters
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya AngelouTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaThe Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio PazBasho by Matsuo Bashō
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 199 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieNovel Without a Name by Dương Thu Hương
Nobel Prize Contenders
77 books — 65 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonObsessive Genius by Barbara GoldsmithGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyAda, the Enchantress of Numbers by Ada LovelaceMadame Curie by Ève Curie
Female Scientists
171 books — 106 voters
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaWomen Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun ChangThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
Women in Translation
924 books — 305 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Lost Colony by Eoin ColferGertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag by Dr. SeussMagic Study by Maria V. SnyderNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Books that Sound So Much More Interesting If One Removes the Last Letter of the Title
1,188 books — 245 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
Literature by Japanese Women
158 books — 152 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOrlando by Virginia WoolfMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei ShōnagonThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuPoems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García MárquezThe Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezNo One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel García MárquezLeaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
20 books — 64 voters

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
630 books — 3,740 voters
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John GrayFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook by Emily Ansara BainesAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
MOST BORING BOOK EVER!
894 books — 469 voters

Stardust by Neil GaimanThe Godfather by Mario PuzoJaws by Peter BenchleyThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Republic by PlatoRelativity by Albert EinsteinDeclaration of Independence, Constitution of the United State... by Founding FathersThe Principia by Isaac Newton
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,285 voters

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,797 books — 9,158 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost by John MiltonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,608 books — 13,138 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Highbrow Fantasy Books
419 books — 624 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Best Fantasy Books
1,681 books — 1,993 voters