2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tomas Bella (11 Lists)



In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchThe Angel of Grozny by x Asne Seierstad
Best Books by Journalists
287 books — 96 voters
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Best News Writing and Reporting
12 books — 4 voters

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven PinkerThe Spirit Level by Richard G. Wilkinson
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters
Why I Write by George Orwell
Foreign Correspondents, Journalists & Reporters
144 books — 29 voters

Personal History by Katharine GrahamIf No News, Send Rumors by Stephen Bates
Print Media and Publishing
243 books — 50 voters
Collapse by Jared DiamondThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Series
3,361 books — 9,440 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebCollapse by Jared DiamondPredictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,060 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,165 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,989 voters