2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Johnny Kennedy (60 Lists)



Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters
The Nose by Nikolai GogolAxolotl by Julio Cortázar
Best Short Stories of All Time
610 books — 381 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best of Hemingway
26 books — 169 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMurder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,253 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,130 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann HesseA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books Under 200 Pages
950 books — 420 voters

Translations by Brian FrielHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Play Ever
520 books — 455 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Republic by Plato
Good Reading's 100 Significant Books
100 books — 56 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayCannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019
175 books — 186 voters
The Nicomachean Ethics by AristotleAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David HumeUtilitarianism by John Stuart MillThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Columbia University Contemporary Civilization reading list
41 books — 4 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Appreciating English Lit - A Reading List
90 books — 9 voters
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareMoby Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Guardian's 50 key moments in English literature, from Marlowe to JK Rowling
48 books — 14 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Creative Work by Virginia Woolf
19 books — 40 voters
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Guardian's 50 most influential books by women in English literature
53 books — 108 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz KafkaThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 voters
The Odyssey by HomerParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Iliad by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareDon Juan by Lord Byron
World's Greatest Epics
204 books — 134 voters

Don Juan by Lord Byron
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 324 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 301 voters

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotParadise Lost by John MiltonFour Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,983 books — 2,424 voters
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,111 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Christian Intellect
1,272 books — 837 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's Book List
131 books — 79 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseNotes from the Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyOedipus Rex by Sophocles
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 924 voters
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Republic by Plato
Reading List For Philosophy And Religion
146 books — 35 voters

The Republic by PlatoBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyHamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareEthics by Baruch Spinoza
Books Inclined To Stimulate Your Mind
104 books — 35 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Left-Texts
669 books — 360 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfEssays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46 by C.G. Jung
Politics
491 books — 460 voters


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