2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jon Birondo (33 Lists)



The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books for the INFJ
696 books — 414 voters
Tenth of December by George SaundersNine Stories by J.D. SalingerWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverWhere I'm Calling From by Raymond CarverThe Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
464 books — 261 voters

It by Stephen KingNight by Elie WieselThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,206 books — 11,303 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
50 books — 105 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Science Fiction
3,651 books — 6,974 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWalk Two Moons by Sharon CreechGone Girl by Gillian FlynnIshmael by Daniel QuinnThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,718 books — 10,332 voters

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Sci-fi that will change the way you look at life
49 books — 20 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Dark Contemporary Fiction
21 books — 20 voters

Book of Longing by Leonard CohenA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books Sitting On My Shelf
100 books — 2 voters
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James AgeeHenri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Exceptional Photography Books*
561 books — 196 voters

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Best Books on Writing
798 books — 1,327 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDiscipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Sociology Books
556 books — 415 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters
Profit Over People by Noam ChomskyThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxSocialism by Friedrich EngelsAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Emancipatory Left
130 books — 62 voters

Watt by Samuel BeckettThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonThe Chocolate War by Robert CormierThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,718 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 966 voters

Capital by Karl MarxEither/Or by Søren KierkegaardManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
Best Horizon Expanding Books
923 books — 553 voters
Resistance, Rebellion and Death by Albert CamusUnderstanding Power by Noam ChomskyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Myth of Sisyphus by Albert CamusThe Rebel by Albert Camus
Literature of the Left
39 books — 25 voters

On Writing by Stephen KingThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.The Anatomy of Story by John TrubyStory by Robert McKeeBird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Books For Writers
135 books — 83 voters
1984 by George OrwellA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxUnderstanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Best Left-Texts
669 books — 360 voters

What Then Must We Do? by Gar AlperovitzThis Life by Martin HägglundDemocratic Theory by Crawford Brough MacphersonThe Marx-Engels Reader by Karl MarxThe Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara
An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Democratic Socialism (i.e. economic democracy)
128 books — 15 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
805 books — 489 voters

V for Vendetta by Alan MooreA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Anarchist books
470 books — 372 voters
Making Movies by Sidney LumetIn the Blink of an Eye by Walter MurchOn Directing Film by David MametWhat is Cinema? Volume I by André BazinWhat is Cinema? by André Bazin
To Be A Filmmaker
24 books — 12 voters

Human, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. CioranThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Realism
101 books — 10 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThis Is Water by David Foster WallaceNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Books that make you think.
1,116 books — 1,056 voters
Death of a Salesman by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillTwelve Angry Men by Reginald RoseDoubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley
Best American Plays
249 books — 366 voters

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantOn the Road by Jack KerouacInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,608 books — 13,138 voters
Night by Elie WieselOn Writing by Stephen King
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,245 books — 4,417 voters


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