2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Cynthia (18 Lists)



The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,061 books — 5,738 voters
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,237 books — 3,910 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,984 voters
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur MillerKing Lear by William ShakespeareOedipus Rex by SophoclesJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Play Ever
520 books — 455 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusCandide by VoltaireThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Fall by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,572 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Top Romance Novels of All Time
702 books — 1,399 voters
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,225 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesA Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality by Joseph Nicolosi
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,028 books — 5,324 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,724 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Books Ever
76,274 books — 283,670 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Book My Father Gave Me
264 books — 222 voters

The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,285 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 630 voters

Fool by Christopher MooreSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeCandide by VoltaireThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Best Humorous Books
4,328 books — 7,909 voters
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,573 voters

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayNight by Elie WieselTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books That Changed My World
3,277 books — 3,185 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters