2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Trejon Dunkley (20 Lists)



Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Darling Strumpet by Gillian BagwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Mistresses
448 books — 728 voters
Pilate's Wife by Antoinette May
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,083 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,323 books — 5,841 voters
Nefertiti by Michelle MoranThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranThe Sekhmet Bed by Libbie HawkerThe Crook and Flail by Libbie Hawker
Best Egyptian Historical Fiction
194 books — 442 voters

The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth StorrsThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
434 books — 950 voters
Night Film by Marisha PesslMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,587 voters
The Lover's Dictionary by David LevithanThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Love Stories
5,172 books — 9,632 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books That Every African American Should Read (Huffington Post List)
181 books — 210 voters
Helen of Troy by Bettany HughesAll the Single Ladies by Rebecca TraisterThe Woman Who Would Be King by Kara CooneyCleopatra by Stacy SchiffThe Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
Women's History Written By Women
974 books — 191 voters

Blood Royal by Mollie HardwickThe Kiss of the Concubine by Judith ArnoppJane Seymour by Alison WeirThe Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan BordoWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books About Tudor England
608 books — 1,627 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,110 books — 1,144 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonPush by Sapphire
Books About Rape and Rape Culture
423 books — 192 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Cult Classics
1,567 books — 2,120 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerLolita by Vladimir NabokovFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,091 voters
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregorySix Wives by David StarkeyThe Concubine by Norah LoftsWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
87 books — 185 voters

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Darker by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Freed by E.L. JamesGrey by E.L. JamesBreaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Trees died for this?
1,364 books — 859 voters
Going Rogue by Sarah PalinNight by Elie Wiesel
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,237 books — 3,909 voters

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Katherine/Catherine Howard
26 books — 12 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)The Awakening by Kate ChopinI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Best Feminist Books
2,517 books — 3,522 voters