2026 Reading Challenge

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



Child of God by Cormac McCarthyInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 966 voters
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,206 books — 11,311 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Set in Appalachia
794 books — 839 voters
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayCollected Stories by William FaulknerFull Dark, No Stars by Stephen KingThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Short Stories
1,758 books — 1,040 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistNight of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David AndersonFull Dark, No Stars by Stephen KingJohannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
I Had No Idea This Book Would Be So Good
8,256 books — 3,091 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan MooreBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Alan Moore
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,014 voters

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,237 books — 3,909 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukWatchmen by Alan MooreI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Twists
8,355 books — 8,987 voters

10 a Boot Stomping 20 a Human Face 30 Goto 10 by Jess Gulbranson
Urban Fantasy With Male Lead Characters
1,023 books — 1,414 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganIn Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin
Best General Science Books
582 books — 488 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. HawkingSix Easy Pieces by Richard P. FeynmanThe Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,599 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books I Regret Reading
2,301 books — 3,226 voters
Loath Letters by Christy Leigh StewartHaunted by Chuck PalahniukGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterOuter Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Different Perspective Books
268 books — 210 voters

Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
SCARIEST BOOK I EVER READ
155 books — 262 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,724 books — 10,342 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Banned Books 2007-2008
85 books — 201 voters
Haunted by Chuck PalahniukThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven HallAss Goblins of Auschwitz by Cameron PierceGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
lists of the unusual and extreme
116 books — 62 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Road by Cormac McCarthyFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,479 books — 14,711 voters
Child of God by Cormac McCarthyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters