2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vrixton Phillips (35 Lists)



The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneI, Claudius by Robert GravesDictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
Autobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
304 books — 549 voters

How to Write a Thesis by Umberto EcoAlan Moore's Writing for Comics by Alan MooreWriting the Fiction Series by Karen S. WiesnerThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Books on Writing
798 books — 1,327 voters
The Republic by Plato
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters

The Art of the Infinite by Robert M. Kaplan
Best Books About Mathematics
449 books — 667 voters
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Classic Gay Male Literature
302 books — 161 voters

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters
Basilica by R.A. Scotti
The Italian Renaissance
282 books — 172 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellHamlet by William ShakespeareBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Stranger by Albert Camus
101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
101 books — 85 voters
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)
234 books — 165 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,321 books — 5,845 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Geofiction: World building for the love of it
167 books — 52 voters

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Modernism - An Alternate Canon
101 books — 37 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfWar & War by László KrasznahorkaiMolloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Books Which NR Ought to Read But Has Not Read YET
81 books — 43 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Waves by Virginia WoolfKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,082 books — 370 voters
The Oedipus Cycle by SophoclesMedea by EuripidesOedipus Rex by Sophocles
Ancient Greek Drama
146 books — 53 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Belle Époque
383 books — 152 voters
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Books You Read Because of a Teacher
234 books — 48 voters

The Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Big Fat Fiction - Best of the Heavyweights
292 books — 156 voters
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters

Orlando by Virginia WoolfThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,194 books — 338 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Trippy Books
843 books — 897 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
"50 Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read" by China Miéville
52 books — 112 voters

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
Best Books on Writing Poetry
111 books — 126 voters
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,239 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The ONE Book You Want Everyone to Read
54 books — 65 voters


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