2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brad Epps (11 Lists)



Beloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesZami by Audre Lorde
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,139 voters
Germinal by Émile ZolaL'Assommoir by Émile ZolaNana by Émile ZolaLa Curée by Émile ZolaThe Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
20 books — 39 voters

The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante
Best of John Fante
34 books — 12 voters
Là-Bas by Joris-Karl HuysmansAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansVenus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-MasochBruges-la-Morte by Georges RodenbachMonsieur Vénus by Rachilde
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni MorrisonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
627 books — 2,756 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Stranger by Albert CamusLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Classic French Literature
344 books — 255 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovOblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters

De donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansMax Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansDe avonden by Gerard ReveThe Assault by Harry Mulisch
Dutch Literary Canon
122 books — 91 voters
Ferdydurke by Witold GombrowiczThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
Penguin Writers from the Other Europe
17 books — 11 voters

R.U.R. by Karel ČapekThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSolaris by Stanisław Lem
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters