2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kathryn (16 Lists)



Healing Wounds by Diane Carlson Evans
Vietnam Nurses
38 books — 13 voters
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Đặng Thùy TrâmHealing Wounds by Diane Carlson Evans
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters

Pure Grit by Mary Cronk FarrellAmerican Women in World War I by Lettie GavinA Time Remembered by Olga Gruhzit-HoytAnd If I Perish by Evelyn M. MonahanWe Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman
Non-Fiction About Women in the Military
233 books — 71 voters
Madeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Best Books 1939
77 books — 37 voters

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette DumbachI Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-JacksonWave Me Goodbye by Anne BostonBehind Enemy Lines by Marthe CohnSuite Française by Irène Némirovsky
A WWII Reading List
718 books — 379 voters
And the Show Went On by Alan RidingSisters in the Resistance by Margaret Collins WeitzSuite Française by Irène NémirovskyWe Only Know Men by Patrick HenryBehind Enemy Lines by Marthe Cohn
Domestic France in WWII
96 books — 50 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,467 books — 14,689 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEthan Frome by Edith Wharton
100 Best American Authors
751 books — 615 voters

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Slavery
182 books — 115 voters
Our Town by Thornton WilderThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Taming of the Shrew by William ShakespeareTwelve Angry Men by Reginald RoseA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Best Plays or Musicals
340 books — 193 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Book of Job by AnonymousMary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellLittle Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Hardscrabble Life
408 books — 118 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters

1984 by George OrwellEthan Frome by Edith WhartonOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,237 books — 3,910 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Winds of War by Herman WoukWar and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
The First Book Longer Than 400 Pages That I Read
34 books — 62 voters

The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeRose Red and Snow White by Ruth SandersonGrimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
A Rose By Any Other Name ...
309 books — 114 voters
In My Hands by Irene Gut OpdykeSuite Française by Irène NémirovskySophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette DumbachSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviAnne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
956 books — 762 voters