2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Shad (10 Lists)



The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,370 voters
Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty
Best Book Cover Art
12,372 books — 7,091 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books Ever
76,425 books — 284,229 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Trial by Franz KafkaOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodGun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan LethemThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,758 books — 25,989 voters

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverForty Stories by Donald BarthelmeHow We Are Hungry by Dave EggersChroma by Frederick BarthelmeIn the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff
Collections of Short Stories
2,896 books — 2,040 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Shining by Stephen KingOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,099 voters

Pop. 1280 by Jim ThompsonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,317 books — 15,586 voters
The World Doesn't End by Charles SimicLunch Poems by Frank O'HaraPaterson by William Carlos WilliamsThe Man with the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens
Best Poetry Books
2,984 books — 2,424 voters

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,877 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters