2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sally (36 Lists)



The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPossession by A.S. ByattThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I wish I had never read
1,285 books — 1,337 voters

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Historical Fiction In Translation
313 books — 23 voters
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
European History
787 books — 160 voters

London by Peter Ackroyd
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,213 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddKinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 778 voters

The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanThe Shining by Stephen King
Books Made Into Movies That Were Awful
54 books — 31 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,463 books — 14,673 voters

Dissolution by C.J. SansomThe River Why by David James Duncan
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,865 books — 1,120 voters
Arguing with Idiots by Glenn BeckGodless by Ann CoulterComing Out Straight by Richard CohenGoing Rogue by Sarah PalinHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,028 books — 5,324 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters
London by Peter AckroydLondon Under by Peter AckroydLondon by Edward RutherfurdThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
London Calling
1,230 books — 645 voters

All Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,017 voters
Sick Puppy by Carl HiaasenA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books that Make you Laugh
3,505 books — 5,033 voters

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels
102 books — 127 voters
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
13,920 books — 14,675 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Male Character
3,165 books — 2,938 voters
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,226 books — 8,060 voters

One for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,398 books — 4,618 voters
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Ending
8,037 books — 6,082 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Literary Mysteries
2,551 books — 4,596 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Literary Fiction
1,548 books — 1,328 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Worst Ending
272 books — 561 voters

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,674 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferGilead by Marilynne RobinsonMedicus by Ruth Downie
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
What To Read Next
20,286 books — 24,167 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 258 voters


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