2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tom Richards (9 Lists)



The Trading Game by Gary StevensonFiasco by Frank PartnoyLiar's Poker by Michael LewisFlash Boys by Michael LewisReminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
Stories about trading
19 books — 2 voters
The Chrysalids by John WyndhamThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells1984 by George OrwellRiddley Walker by Russell Hoban
British Post-Apocalyptic Books
90 books — 41 voters

Brother in the Land by Robert SwindellsFuturetrack 5 by Robert WestallEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardOn the Flip Side by Nicholas Fisk
Children's Science Fiction of the 1980s
224 books — 15 voters
9 Lessons in Brexit by Ivan RogersA Short History of Brexit by Kevin H. O'Rourke
Brexit & The EU In/Out Referendum
72 books — 16 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienUlysses by James JoyceAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,608 books — 13,138 voters
This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Engdahl
Book You Loved, But No One Else Around You Has Heard Of
361 books — 122 voters

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele FaberNurtureShock by Po BronsonUnconditional Parenting by Alfie KohnRaising Boys by Steve Biddulph
Best Parenting and Family Books
124 books — 130 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaLamb to the Slaughter by Roald DahlShort Cuts by Raymond CarverThe Solitude of Compassion by Jean Giono
Good short fiction
663 books — 390 voters

Life Ascending by Nick LaneThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Red Queen by Matt RidleyGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters