2026 Reading Challenge

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



Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Best American Civil War Books
1,007 books — 980 voters
The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneGods and Generals by Jeff ShaaraBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
American Civil War Books (fiction and nonfiction)
451 books — 256 voters

Dubliners by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftSelected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 719 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,413 books — 25,596 voters

To the Finland Station by Edmund WilsonThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonThe Great Game by Peter HopkirkThe Age of Capital, 1848–1875 by Eric J. HobsbawmSon of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
Best History Books
3,709 books — 3,740 voters
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. LawrenceNo Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Guerrilla Warfare
64 books — 30 voters

Stalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreLenin's Tomb by David Remnick
Books about Russia
139 books — 74 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,576 books — 120,252 voters

Fifth Business by Robertson DaviesBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellThe Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,781 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelDissolution by C.J. SansomSovereign by C.J. SansomDark Fire by C.J. Sansom
Best Books About Tudor England
609 books — 1,629 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGreat Expectations by Charles DickensAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Must Read Classics
1,861 books — 4,651 voters
Kings of Albion by Julian RathboneThe Crusader by Michael Alexander EisnerThe Road to Jerusalem by Jan GuillouThe Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Historical Fiction: The House of Plantagenet
207 books — 477 voters