2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Coalbanks (22 Lists)



The Hypnotist by Lars KeplerRedemption Road by John Hart
Detective Fiction
1,187 books — 1,082 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Jungle by Upton SinclairMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,285 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHiroshima by John Hersey
Best History Books
3,709 books — 3,739 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Must Read World War II Military History - European Theater of Operations (nonfiction)
311 books — 115 voters

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Middle Ages Books
1,222 books — 1,703 voters
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Sailing Cruising
280 books — 198 voters

Haunted by Chuck PalahniukAnimal Farm by George OrwellIn Search of Bill Clinton by John D. GartnerPeeled by Joan BauerThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Best Covers
612 books — 288 voters
Davy by Edgar Pangborn
Best Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic YA Fiction
347 books — 751 voters

He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum
Murder Most Cold
234 books — 396 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeRoots by Alex HaleyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,587 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,061 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,331 books — 24,664 voters

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Worst Ending
272 books — 561 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Hobbit by Chuck DixonAsterix the Gaul by René Goscinny300 by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,453 books — 6,768 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Books We Like About Characters We Hate
36 books — 29 voters
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámThe Trojan Women by EuripidesRamayana by VālmīkiThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 106 voters

Watership Down by Richard AdamsOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLord of the Flies by William GoldingAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
LOST Book Club
80 books — 119 voters
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by Norman Davis the lateA Man for All Seasons by Robert BoltPaston Letters And Papers Of The Fifteenth Century by Norman DavisPrivate Life in the Fifteenth Century by Roger Virgoe
Best Books About Tudor England
609 books — 1,628 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoL'École des Femmes by MolièreCandide by Voltaire
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,572 voters
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Jungle by Upton SinclairIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonA Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara VineThe Alienist by Caleb CarrRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,314 books — 15,563 voters