2026 Reading Challenge

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



In a Monastery Garden by Elizabeth; Peplow PeplowThe Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeA Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeThe Scented Garden by Eleanour Sinclair RohdeRose Recipes from Olden Times by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Historical Garden Books
8 books — 1 voter
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Silence by Shūsaku EndōTill We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Catholic Fiction
544 books — 427 voters

The Discarded Image by C.S. LewisInferno by Dante AlighieriA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman1066 by David Howarth
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,197 books — 283,350 voters

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,083 voters
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyThe Optimist's Daughter by Eudora WeltyThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,575 voters

A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo GutiérrezIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanProfit Over People by Noam ChomskyThe Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip SlaterThe Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,280 books — 1,421 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,783 voters