2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Wulf (57 Lists)



The Seventh Cross by Anna SeghersThe Dead Girls' Class Trip by Anna Seghers
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Likeness by Tana FrenchThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeReading in the Dark by Seamus DeaneThe Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Best Irish Books
686 books — 603 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannPerfume by Patrick SüskindHomo Faber by Max FrischMeasuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
100 German Must-Reads from Deutsche Welle
100 books — 30 voters
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Books about American slavery
404 books — 403 voters

Death and the King's Horseman by Wole SoyinkaSegu by Maryse CondéHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
African Fiction
600 books — 428 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerBabbitt by Sinclair LewisThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

The Wall by Marlen HaushoferThe Hunger Angel by Herta MüllerThe Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard KeunCassandra by Christa Wolf
Europe Minus Men and English
857 books — 226 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Nebula Award for Best Novel
63 books — 392 voters

The City & the City by China MiévilleThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
84 books — 1,614 voters
Blindness by José SaramagoThe Plague by Albert CamusGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Apocalypse by Epidemic
260 books — 297 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan PoeDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 577 voters
Der Prozess by Franz KafkaMutter Courage und ihre Kinder. Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigj... by Bertolt BrechtWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettKrabat by Otfried PreußlerMomo by Michael Ende
Thalia Best 100 Books Of The Last 100 Years
101 books — 11 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellNeuromancer by William GibsonSchweigen by Shūsaku EndōKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books Set in Japan
106 books — 76 voters
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Drunken Masters
281 books — 376 voters

Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis by Christoph RansmayrDer alte Mann und das Meer by Ernest HemingwayIce Station Zebra by Alistair MacLeanDas Rätsel Nordwestpassage. Der Kampf um den Seeweg vom Atlan... by Kurt LütgenA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Schiffe, Meer & Eis
89 books — 5 voters
Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von ...Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 703 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude
461 books — 60 voters
Elric of Melniboné by Michael MoorcockThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Heroic Fantasy
719 books — 1,384 voters

The Republic of Wine by Mo YanThe Garlic Ballads by Mo YanThe Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China by Lu Xun
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
51 books — 8 voters
The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Hugo 2016 Eligible Works
476 books — 1,085 voters

The Republic of Wine by Mo YanThree Kingdoms by Luo GuanzhongThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinWild Swans by Jung ChangBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Chinese Literature
321 books — 150 voters
Serengeti Shall Not Die by Bernhard GrzimekSegu by Maryse Condé
African Lit
179 books — 31 voters

1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHamlet by William ShakespeareFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
627 books — 2,755 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićDeath and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićChronicle in Stone by Ismail KadareIn den Schluchten des Balkan by Karl MayDurch das Land der Skipetaren by Karl May
The Balkans
285 books — 215 voters

Die Schnapsstadt by Mo Yan
Cheers!
285 books — 78 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
731 books — 478 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,987 voters
Das Geisterhaus by Isabel AllendeThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDie Wand by Marlen Haushofer
Unsere Besten - Das große Lesen: Das Lieblingsbuch der Deutschen
125 books — 118 voters


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