2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ben (26 Lists)



Behind the Crisis by Guglielmo CarchediAlasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism by Paul BlackledgeA Marxist Philosophy of Language by Jean-Jacques LecercleAlthusser by Gregory ElliottBetween Equal Rights by China Miéville
Historical Materialism Book Series Titles
64 books — 8 voters
Stoner by John Williams
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 891 voters

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discred... by Jeff Vandermeer
Weirdest Books Ever
1,193 books — 1,184 voters
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Rising Up and Rising Down
81 books — 27 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoLolita by Vladimir NabokovFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Anti-heroes in Books
600 books — 430 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Middle Ages Books
1,224 books — 1,705 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert JordanThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Best Series
3,366 books — 9,447 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Eye of the World by Robert JordanA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Most Interesting Magic System
2,650 books — 8,769 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 578 voters
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 630 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNeuromancer by William GibsonLoser by Jerry Spinelli
If Books Were Food, This Would Be A Fruitcake
57 books — 22 voters
Miles to Go by Miley CyrusThe O'Reilly Factor for Kids by Bill O'Reilly
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,637 books — 5,993 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Superhero Fiction
844 books — 1,231 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldInkspell by Cornelia FunkeThe Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtWicked by Gregory Maguire
Best Book Cover Art
12,390 books — 7,092 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Victorian Mysteries
153 books — 190 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonI Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Best Book Titles
11,503 books — 7,925 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyLife of Pi by Yann MartelGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,610 books — 13,142 voters

The Eye of the World by Robert JordanThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,197 books — 25,753 voters
Dandelion Wine by Ray BradburyFrom the Dust Returned by Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Best of Ray Bradbury
102 books — 244 voters

The Waste Lands by Stephen KingThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Best of Stephen King
178 books — 3,874 voters
Son of a Witch by Gregory MaguireTwilight by Stephenie MeyerPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Biggest Disappointment
64 books — 94 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best for Book Clubs
14,664 books — 18,526 voters
Santa's Twin by Dean Koontz
Best Dean Koontz Books
91 books — 902 voters

1984 by George OrwellDune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Important Science Fiction
40 books — 14 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George OrwellInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters