2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Liz (25 Lists)



The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Trial by Franz KafkaMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,842 voters
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Best Female Lead Characters
4,847 books — 5,890 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Best Humorous Books
4,331 books — 7,911 voters
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Books Worth Reading on Depression (fiction and nonfiction)
466 books — 543 voters

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownLove Story by Erich SegalStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,331 books — 24,664 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,589 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
473 books — 1,136 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters
1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best School Assigned Books
766 books — 2,062 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,218 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyFinnegans Wake by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieA Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Best Indian Fiction Books
913 books — 2,421 voters

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen RussellNumber9Dream by David Mitchell
Best Unappreciated Books
4,356 books — 2,202 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Must Read Classics
1,861 books — 4,650 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Holy Bible by Anonymousالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by Plato
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,285 voters
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleLiar's Poker by Michael LewisThe Executioner's Song by Norman MailerThe Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceDracula by Bram Stoker
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,433 books — 10,171 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,986 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,232 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,609 books — 13,139 voters