2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Donovan (19 Lists)



Big Questions by Anders NilsenMoomin by Tove JanssonMarble Season by Gilbert HernándezThe Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro TatsumiGood-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The Best of Drawn and Quarterly
214 books — 26 voters
The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Stranger by Albert CamusJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
102 books — 483 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Trial by Franz KafkaFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDemian by Hermann HesseThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
974 books — 957 voters
Speedboat by Renata AdlerStoner by John WilliamsThe Dud Avocado by Elaine DundyThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
New York Review Books (NYRB) Classics: A Guide
36 books — 24 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,098 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeLet It Come Down by Paul BowlesDeath on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand CélineAfter Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous HuxleyThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Best Titles of Novels
101 books — 10 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsThe Fall by Albert CamusOne, No One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi PirandelloThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoyHell by Henri Barbusse
Best Existentialist Novels
59 books — 31 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László KrasznahorkaiSelected Writings by Guillaume ApollinaireA Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur RimbaudAmerika by Franz Kafka
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
Life is a Dream by Gyula KrúdyThe Elephant by Sławomir Mrożek
Penguin Central European Classics
10 books — 11 voters

Watchfiends and Rack Screams by Antonin ArtaudThe Poet Assassinated by Guillaume ApollinaireExploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred JarryThe Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz KafkaMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont
Exact Change Press
37 books — 6 voters
Another Country by James Baldwin
Tales of New York City
1,516 books — 1,223 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books Set in Paris
303 books — 207 voters
The Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
703 books — 880 voters

Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar KemalHuman Landscapes from My Country by Nâzım Hikmet
The Best Turkish Books Which are Translated to English
62 books — 75 voters
Zeno's Conscience by Italo SvevoPinocchio by Carlo CollodiAgostino by Alberto MoraviaBoredom by Alberto MoraviaContempt by Alberto Moravia
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 233 voters

Kokoro by Natsume SōsekiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Japanese Literature
310 books — 387 voters
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil KharmsThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,278 voters

The Summer Book by Tove JanssonDead Souls by Nikolai GogolSelected Stories by Robert WalserContempt by Alberto MoraviaBoredom by Alberto Moravia
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 892 voters