2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vale (23 Lists)



Affairs of Steak by Julie HyzyBuffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy
Urban cozy mysteries
46 books — 31 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Abusive Relationships in YA Fiction
110 books — 110 voters

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Best Books for Working Women
175 books — 228 voters
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingGood in Bed by Jennifer WeinerThe Undomestic Goddess by Sophie KinsellaEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertBergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
Best chicklit
778 books — 1,060 voters

Real Murders by Charlaine HarrisSize 12 Is Not Fat by Meg CabotDeath by Darjeeling by Laura ChildsThree Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine HarrisMurder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Best Cozy Mystery Series
2,534 books — 2,678 voters
M or F? by Lisa PapademetriouThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Young Adult Books That Kids With Values Can Read
417 books — 197 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 892 voters
The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,224 books — 68,400 voters

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
A Year in the Life
207 books — 325 voters
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyThe Black Echo by Michael ConnellyThe Body in the Library by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,210 books — 2,297 voters

The Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Last Coyote by Michael ConnellyIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Thrillers
4,605 books — 5,599 voters
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyThe Concrete Blonde by Michael ConnellyThe Last Coyote by Michael ConnellyThe Reversal by Michael Connelly
Best by Michael Connelly
33 books — 99 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Best Book Titles
11,486 books — 7,892 voters
The Colorado Kid by Stephen KingFrom a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Worst Stephen King books
62 books — 481 voters

The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainDracula by Bram StokerBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Fictional Diaries and Journals
155 books — 85 voters
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieMurder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieA Caribbean Mystery by Agatha ChristieCurtain by Agatha ChristieNemesis by Agatha Christie
Best Agatha Christie Book
112 books — 1,377 voters

Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville
Kick-Ass Women-Written M/M Books
669 books — 145 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottV for Vendetta by Alan MoorePerfume by Patrick SüskindMother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Favorite Books
14,395 books — 9,987 voters

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters
The Lost Symbol by Dan BrownThe King of Torts by John GrishamMiles to Go by Miley CyrusLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books Ever
76,302 books — 283,831 voters