2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gary (21 Lists)



Complete Novels by Dashiell HammettLonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
445 books — 337 voters
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonThe Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,101 books — 1,950 voters

Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
Best Biographies
1,663 books — 2,944 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Journey Through Literary America
154 books — 221 voters

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiMindfulness in Plain English by Henepola GunaratanaThe Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat HanhPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best Meditation Books
112 books — 143 voters
Rigadoon by Louis-Ferdinand CélineNorth by Louis-Ferdinand CélineCastle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand CélineMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert MaturinInferno by Dante Alighieri
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
530 books — 1,888 voters
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Best of Tolstoy
31 books — 445 voters

Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen BatchelorWhat the Buddha Taught by Walpola RahulaLiving Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat HanhZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsCutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
A Buddhist Reading List
898 books — 1,179 voters
Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat HanhMetamorphoses by Ovid
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
260 books — 233 voters

Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best Poetry Books
2,983 books — 2,424 voters
Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
Best poem / short story that expresses so much.
34 books — 54 voters

Ghazals of Ghalib; by Mirza Asadullah Khan GhalibThe Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation by Charles TomlinsonNineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot WeinbergerTechnicians of the Sacred by Jerome RothenbergThe Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan
Literary translation
196 books — 20 voters
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
Best of Epic Poetry
124 books — 202 voters

Flowers of a Moment by Ko UnSongs for Tomorrow by Ko UnTen Thousand Lives by Ko Un
Korean literature in English (fiction and nonfiction)
294 books — 217 voters
Ten Thousand Lives by Ko UnSongs for Tomorrow by Ko UnFlowers of a Moment by Ko Un
Korean Literature in Translation
29 books — 21 voters

What Book!? by Gary GachFlowers of a Moment by Ko Un
Best Spiritual Poetry Book
198 books — 101 voters
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism by Gary GachZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsCutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam TrungpaThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal RinpocheZen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Buddhist Classics
77 books — 44 voters

What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Anthologies
1,122 books — 771 voters
What Book!? by Gary Gach
Best Books Ever
76,296 books — 283,794 voters

Home by Marilynne Robinson
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
30 books — 130 voters