2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Richard (21 Lists)



The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 by Rich Horton
Award-nominated Asian SFF writers
36 books — 22 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingUlysses by James Joyce
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José SaramagoThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,242 books — 3,411 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskySelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen RussellThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Story Collections
1,552 books — 856 voters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Books I Regret Reading
2,300 books — 3,225 voters

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Lesser Known Authors
3,944 books — 3,355 voters
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Best New Author Debuts
420 books — 606 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,060 voters
Anything He Wants by Richard WeemsThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Iliad by Homer
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,433 books — 10,166 voters
Beowulf by UnknownA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,111 voters

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,438 books — 8,418 voters
The Aeneid by Virgil
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,083 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters
The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenNight by Elie WieselDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerBlindness by José Saramago
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,237 books — 3,910 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Odyssey by HomerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
76,279 books — 283,686 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters