2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Maggie (37 Lists)



His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
4,457 books — 18,210 voters
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
1001+ or- books to read before i die
38 books — 29 voters

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,575 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Books I want to read in 2012
406 books — 356 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathLolita by Vladimir NabokovDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Favorite Books That Were Once Banned
63 books — 23 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Books of Your Lifetime
531 books — 170 voters

Neuromancer by William Gibson
Best of Cyberpunk
371 books — 1,182 voters
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
My Favorite Reads of 2012
31 books — 9 voters

Egyptian Politics by Maye Kassem
Best Books About Egypt
491 books — 574 voters
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Novels That Take Place in China
414 books — 1,096 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Art & Artists in Fiction
930 books — 1,105 voters
The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee AndersonThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Best Middle East Nonfiction
534 books — 373 voters

Flutter by Erin E. Moulton
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,240 books — 6,628 voters
Shōgun by James Clavell
Transcultural Fiction
421 books — 209 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
13,920 books — 14,680 voters
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,076 books — 11,671 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Books Featuring Witches
753 books — 819 voters

Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
Men I Wish Were Real
1,687 books — 1,286 voters
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean StaffordMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseIndian Givers by Jack Weatherford
Best American History Books
2,124 books — 2,495 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Highbrow Fantasy Books
419 books — 624 voters

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,029 books — 954 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters

Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,103 books — 1,951 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 398 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books About Tudor England
608 books — 1,627 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónCritique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio
Best Historical Mystery
2,070 books — 4,531 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter CareyOscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,986 voters


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