2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rachel (19 Lists)



A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Best Humorous Books
4,327 books — 7,891 voters
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Books of 2008
1,632 books — 6,781 voters
The BFG by Roald DahlEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Favorite Books
14,372 books — 9,971 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Asian-American Books
544 books — 328 voters
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieReservation Blues by Sherman AlexieThe Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman AlexieTen Little Indians by Sherman AlexieIndian Killer by Sherman Alexie
Native American Fiction
837 books — 639 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XAssata by Assata ShakurThe Temple of My Familiar by Alice WalkerSister Outsider by Audre LordeZami by Audre Lorde
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,138 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,674 voters
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,421 books — 7,428 voters

I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia TarpleyWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakIsh by Peter H. ReynoldsPunk Farm by Jarrett J. KrosoczkaThe Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
Best Children's Books
5,307 books — 6,705 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,586 voters

Assata by Assata ShakurAn Autobiography by Angela Y. DavisBone Black by bell hooks
Memoirs by Women
3,015 books — 3,031 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
3,074 books — 8,680 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books Ever
76,212 books — 283,407 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul CurtisWeetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Best Young Adult Books
13,096 books — 80,174 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Lorax by Dr. SeussTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,782 voters