2026 Reading Challenge

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



The Book Thief by Markus ZusakDirt Music by Tim WintonPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayBurial Rites by Hannah KentCapricornia by Xavier Herbert
Great Australian novels
334 books — 131 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Memoirs by Women
3,015 books — 3,030 voters

I Can Jump Puddles by Alan MarshallBlinky Bill by Dorothy WallStorm Boy by Colin ThieleThe Princess and the Pea by Janet StevensPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
My favorite books from my youth
184 books — 65 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayJoe Cinque's Consolation by Helen GarnerCloudstreet by Tim WintonThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasThe White Earth by Andrew McGahan
Australia In Words
289 books — 56 voters

The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,676 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNight by Elie WieselThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Australian Authors
829 books — 300 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayI Can Jump Puddles by Alan MarshallThe Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardPoppy by Drusilla Modjeska
Best Modern Australian Literature
562 books — 669 voters