2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kerry (16 Lists)



The Future of Peace by Scott A. Hunt
Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)
1,273 books — 167 voters
Congo Cables by Madeleine G. KalbThe Political Economy of Third World Intervention by David N. Gibbs
Ridiculously Underrated Books (20 Ratings or fewer)
2,042 books — 213 voters

Solo by Rana DasguptaThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Queen's Library: Best of the Commonwealth
743 books — 231 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters

The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,412 books — 10,150 voters
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. JeromeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradA Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Row Your Boat
121 books — 28 voters

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
What To Read Next
20,286 books — 24,168 voters
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamThe Law and the Lady by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,111 voters

Solo by Rana DasguptaHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,956 voters
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,923 books — 271 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters
Chief of Station, Congo by Larry DevlinLiving In, Living Out by Elizabeth Clark-LewisMiss Smithers by Susan JubyAlice MacLeod, Realist at Last by Susan Juby
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,182 books — 765 voters

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam ToewsThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam ToewsA Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil CourtemancheMercy Among the Children by David Adams RichardsNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Canadian Fiction
1,039 books — 605 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters