2026 Reading Challenge

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



Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréSmiley's People by John le CarréThe Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Best Spy Novels
1,292 books — 2,253 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert CamusJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
102 books — 482 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,784 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,121 voters

Selected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus HeaneyThe Art of Love by OvidDuino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Cantos by Ezra Pound
Poetry
899 books — 427 voters
Blindsight by Peter WattsEchopraxia by Peter Watts
Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century
193 books — 1,504 voters

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
2016 Sci-Fi Award Nominees
71 books — 61 voters
The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,990 books — 1,283 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,091 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters

Beowulf by Unknown
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,284 voters
Nihil Unbound by Ray BrassierThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Republic by PlatoBeing and Time by Martin Heidegger
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,419 voters

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas MetzingerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Odyssey by HomerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
76,174 books — 283,248 voters