2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bobbi Young (7 Lists)



We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol OatesWhere the Heart Is by Billie LettsI Know This Much Is True by Wally LambShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggMisery by Stephen KingThe Witches by Roald Dahl
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellRoots by Alex HaleyFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,588 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,230 books — 5,215 voters

Watership Down by Richard AdamsCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsDewey by Vicki MyronBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Best Books About Animals
1,842 books — 1,853 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,234 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Help by Kathryn StockettOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Books Ever
76,282 books — 283,710 voters