2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Guido (8 Lists)



Cloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
100 books — 236 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovExercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,209 books — 8,951 voters
The Satyricon by PetroniusIgnition! by John Drury ClarkThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Good War by Studs TerkelThe Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Prepare for Gravity's Rainbow
10 books — 1 voter

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCloud Atlas by David MitchellInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,718 voters
By Night in Chile by Roberto BolañoThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienJakob von Gunten by Robert WalserWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Lincoln Michel's 17 short novels you can read in a day
17 books — 8 voters

Why Read the Classics? by Italo CalvinoDaisy Miller by Henry JamesThe Odyssey by HomerThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Classics in "Why Read the Classics"
7 books — 2 voters
Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleRemainder by Tom McCarthyThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads
2,678 books — 1,034 voters