2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Theodore Thompson (23 Lists)



The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasDune by Frank Herbert
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,995 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Best Unappreciated Books
4,356 books — 2,202 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,724 voters
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,767 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Indie Literature, General Fiction
103 books — 213 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humor Writing
842 books — 853 voters

Onitsha by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,762 books — 1,642 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
371 books — 242 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Short Stories
1,758 books — 1,040 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,609 books — 13,139 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Medicine and Literature
1,846 books — 2,006 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best American History Books
2,124 books — 2,495 voters

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Favorite Travel Books
2,021 books — 3,941 voters
Pastoralia by George SaundersFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,039 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Book Titles
11,485 books — 7,883 voters
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia
425 books — 361 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters

1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisOn the Road by Jack KerouacMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,718 voters
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Drunken Masters
281 books — 376 voters

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
560 books — 544 voters
The Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsThe Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,227 voters