2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dimitar Krastev (24 Lists)



The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,285 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsShadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganInfluence by Robert B. Cialdini
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,752 books — 25,991 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Critical Thinking
198 books — 136 voters

The Immoralist by André GideDeath Be Not Proud by John GuntherAn Outline of Abnormal Psychology by Murphy GardnerWho Speaks for Man by Norman CousinsAstronomy by Robert Horace Baker
Carl Sagan's Reading List
34 books — 9 voters
Pihkal by Alexander ShulginTihkal by Alexander ShulginDNA by James D. Watson
Chemistry - best books
174 books — 99 voters

Nightwood by Djuna BarnesA Tale of a Tub by Jonathan SwiftPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfClarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
The Millions' World's Most Difficult Books
21 books — 17 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Dark Humor
729 books — 1,631 voters

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Kinky But I Like It!
797 books — 413 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
201 books — 105 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
61 Essential Postmodern Reads: Los Angeles Times
66 books — 12 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryMan's Fate by André Malraux
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
102 books — 482 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters
On the Origin of Species by Charles DarwinOn Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonLife on Earth by David Attenborough
The International Year of Biodiversity
80 books — 44 voters

Contact by Carl Sagan
SCIENCE & LITERATURE--Together at Last
245 books — 115 voters
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl SaganVoyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinOn Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 778 voters

The Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,719 voters
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,100 voters

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonWhat Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin SchrödingerOn Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonClimbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Best General Science Books
582 books — 488 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinOn Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonCosmos by Carl SaganThe Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. MandelbrotShadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters