2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephanie (29 Lists)



Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinCoronation Year by Jennifer RobsonLady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,961 books — 515 voters
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl GonzálezWe Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia HunterThe Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine SimonThe Man Who Died Twice by Richard OsmanAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 579 voters

S. by J.J. AbramsDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanMagic Lessons by Alice HoffmanThe Midnight Library by Matt Haig
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 695 voters
Lysistrata by AristophanesEdward Trencom's Nose by Giles MiltonMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesOne Day by David NichollsThe Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
Greece
47 books — 16 voters

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas JonassonThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksMy Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik BackmanThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Books About Old People
541 books — 191 voters
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenThe Other Einstein by Marie BenedictGarner by Kirstin AllioCandide by Voltaire
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,393 books — 848 voters

Kings County by David GoodwillieMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael ZapataSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
588 books — 1,241 voters
Like Bees to Honey by Caroline SmailesThe Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas RinaldiIronfire by David BallOn the Island at the Center of the Center of the World by Elizabeth Kadetsky
Novels set in the Maltese Islands ( Malta, Gozo, Comino)
51 books — 42 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Brilliant Debuts
210 books — 71 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Great Debut Novels
1,575 books — 1,473 voters

Neither Here nor There by Bill BrysonJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeA Venetian Affair by Andrea di RobilantThe Last Queen by C.W. GortnerExpo 58 by Jonathan Coe
Books set in Belgium
79 books — 19 voters
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill BrysonGarner by Kirstin Allio
Books Set in New Hampshire
318 books — 84 voters

Broken by Karin FossumThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Solitaire Mystery by Jostein GaarderAstrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters
The Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimA Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de BlasiThe City of Falling Angels by John BerendtThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Reading Italy
444 books — 237 voters

P.S. I Love You by Cecelia AhernThere's No Place Like Here by Cecelia AhernSushi for Beginners by Marian KeyesThe Faraday Girls by Monica McInerneyJuno & Juliet by Julian Gough
Best Fiction Set in Ireland
815 books — 547 voters
The Winter Sea by Susanna KearsleyMorvern Callar by Alan Warner44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall SmithThe Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'FarrellOne Day by David Nicholls
Books Set in Scotland
983 books — 670 voters

Good in Bed by Jennifer WeinerThe Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenryIn Her Shoes by Jennifer WeinerLittle Earthquakes by Jennifer WeinerLove Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Pennsylvania Books
336 books — 105 voters
The Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerForever by Pete HamillThe Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlinThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Tales of New York City
1,510 books — 1,221 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingHolly's Inbox by Holly DenhamThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Epistolary Fiction
855 books — 847 voters
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Best of the Salem Witch Trials (fiction and nonfiction)
98 books — 197 voters

The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth HickeyWhen Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. YalomThe Fig Eater by Jody ShieldsWaiting for Sunrise by William BoydThe Little Book by Selden Edwards
Vienna/Wien
256 books — 113 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCity of Shadows by Ariana FranklinThe Einstein Girl by Philip SingtonThe Glimmer Palace by Beatrice ColinThe Feasts of Lesser Men by Stephen Parrish
Novels Set in Germany
416 books — 199 voters

Corfu by Robert DessaixThe Island by Victoria HislopEdward Trencom's Nose by Giles MiltonNights of Rain and Stars by Maeve BinchyThis Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
Books Set in Greece
348 books — 148 voters
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith GessenSixty-Six by Barry LevinsonBurning Girl by Ben NeihartCharm City by Madison Smartt BellThe Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
Baltimore
202 books — 46 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston GroomMary Poppins by P.L. TraversCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. AbagnaleThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumA Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,222 books — 6,121 voters
The Queen's Fool by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Color of A Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn
Spain
513 books — 244 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainWaiting by Bruce HendersonEdward Trencom's Nose by Giles MiltonThe Butter Did It by Phyllis C. RichmanJulie and Julia by Julie Powell
Nouvelle Cuisine
367 books — 249 voters