2026 Reading Challenge

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



Amrita by Banana YoshimotoAsleep by Banana YoshimotoKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,248 voters
The Songlines by Bruce ChatwinTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Favorite Travel Books
2,021 books — 3,941 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldVertigo by W.G. SebaldThe Emigrants by W.G. SebaldThe Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
973 books — 956 voters
Still Alive by Ruth KlügerSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtA Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,827 books — 6,353 voters

The Sea by John BanvilleDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeLife & Times of Michael K by J.M. CoetzeeMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Double by José SaramagoThe Pickup by Nadine GordimerThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldPedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Best Books Ever
76,255 books — 283,639 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,588 voters