2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Garrett (13 Lists)



Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Caldecott Medal Winners
88 books — 455 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
5 books — 1 voter

Jake's Thing by Kingsley AmisEnding Up by Kingsley AmisThe Old Devils by Kingsley AmisCat’s Eye by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Shortlist
100 books — 1 voter
How German Is It by Walter AbishA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Second Coming by Walker PercyThe Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardThe Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
Pen/Faulkner Winners & Runners-Up
42 books — 1 voter

The Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesNostromo by Joseph ConradThe Golden Bowl by Henry James
100 best novels - modern library
165 books — 109 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfWatchmen by Alan MooreThe Crucible by Arthur MillerCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,782 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Humorous Books
4,328 books — 7,892 voters
Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerFinnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceThe Cantos by Ezra Pound
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poetry and Prose by Stéphane MallarméLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Best European Poetry
28 books — 11 voters

Eunoia by Christian BökI'll Drown My Book by Caroline BergvallAgainst Expression by Craig DworkinSoliloquy by Kenneth GoldsmithFidget by Kenneth Goldsmith
Conceptual Writing
152 books — 23 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerBeowulf by UnknownThe Owl and the Nightingale by UnknownHoly Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker BynumThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God by Jean Leclercq
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
76,220 books — 283,462 voters