2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Aaron (12 Lists)



Becoming a Man by Paul MonetteCity of Night by John RechyGay New York by George ChaunceyClose to the Knives by David WojnarowiczFaggots by Larry Kramer
Gay Book Club
204 books — 11 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterWhen We Rise by Cleve JonesDino by Nick Tosches
Best American History Books
2,124 books — 2,495 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroLow Life by Lucy SanteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Best History Books
3,707 books — 3,738 voters
The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchLife on the Outside by Jennifer GonnermanInvisible Punishment by Meda Chesney-Lind
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,129 books — 1,536 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHallucinations by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
Medicine and Literature
1,845 books — 2,005 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinWe Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley
Best Gay Fiction
2,663 books — 3,866 voters

Smash Cut by Brad GoochDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David SedarisDry by Augusten BurroughsWhen We Rise by Cleve Jones
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
820 books — 478 voters
Just Kids by Patti SmithLife by Keith RichardsThis Wheel's on Fire by Levon HelmLet's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,442 books — 1,344 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteJust Kids by Patti SmithLow Life by Lucy Sante
Tales of New York City
1,510 books — 1,221 voters

The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,196 books — 11,301 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Odyssey by HomerThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaUlysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,608 books — 13,138 voters