2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lane VHM (45 Lists)



The Book Thief by Markus ZusakLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Superbly Written Historical Fiction
495 books — 265 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMy Ántonia by Willa CatherThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,008 books — 1,448 voters

Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García MárquezEl amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez
200 libros 200 años: Catálogo de literatura colombiana
193 books — 17 voters
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. VaughanSaga, Volume 2 by Brian K. VaughanThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiIce Cream Man, Volume 1 by W. Maxwell PrinceThe Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Recommended Graphic Novels
63 books — 6 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Books by Black Authors
909 books — 366 voters
Popol Vuh by Anonymous
Intro to Latin America
120 books — 8 voters

Born a Crime by Trevor NoahThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
ATY 2020 - A book set in the southern hemisphere
193 books — 67 voters
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Criminal Justice Reform
56 books — 12 voters

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Oh, Canada!
1,335 books — 503 voters
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayNotebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé CésaireFarewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas
Read Caribbean
403 books — 91 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Muslim women
31 books — 28 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Most Read Authors
51 books — 8 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 257 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Correspondence
29 books — 11 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Children in War
36 books — 4 voters
The Underdogs by Mariano AzuelaMala Yerba - Esa Sangre by Mariano AzuelaCartucho by Nellie CampobelloThe Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
Mexican Revolution
23 books — 16 voters

Education for Extinction by David Wallace AdamsSacajawea by Anna Lee WaldoLeaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert WendtHawaii by James A. Michener
Indigenous Peoples
281 books — 66 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMatilda by Roald Dahl
Fiction/Novels with Female Protagonists That Aren't About Love or Romance
660 books — 349 voters

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Fictitious Australia
463 books — 115 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHawaii by James A. Michener
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
2,518 books — 2,757 voters

July's People by Nadine GordimerBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
South African Writers
33 books — 11 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckHotel Iris by Yōko OgawaThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Books with endings I honestly didn't see coming
675 books — 633 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Well-Written Holocaust Books
891 books — 2,886 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanPalomar by Gilbert Hernández
500 Essential Graphic Novels
939 books — 863 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez2666 by Roberto BolañoLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
Best Translated From Spanish Into English
46 books — 10 voters
A History of Reading by Alberto ManguelThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books, Bookstores, and Even Book Criminals
74 books — 22 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thirty books everyone should read before they're thirty
39 books — 9 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diving Pool by Yōko OgawaDona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Smart Summer Reads
12,703 books — 10,626 voters


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