2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nikki (12 Lists)



The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoySelected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
India - books
138 books — 17 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters

My Place by Sally Morgan
Indigenous Australian Writing
208 books — 79 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
25 books — 840 voters
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
Sorrentino's Syllabus
60 books — 31 voters

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie WillisOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodTimeline by Michael Crichton
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,326 books — 24,667 voters
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,986 voters

Summertime by J.M. CoetzeeSummer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray LawlerThe Riders by Tim WintonMy Place by Sally MorganBliss by Peter Carey
Best Modern Australian Literature
562 books — 669 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegKristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid UndsetMoominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoDoomsday Book by Connie WillisKatherine by Anya Seton
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters