2026 Reading Challenge
Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
28th out of 262 books — 167 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
601st out of 609 books — 1,628 voters

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
Best Books on the Renaissance
179th out of 187 books — 104 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Tempest by William ShakespeareNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Willie-Nillie? I don't think so!
102nd out of 234 books — 14 voters

Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
Uncle Sam
39th out of 46 books — 11 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Wanted Dead or Alive
183rd out of 597 books — 38 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGlimmerglass by Jenna BlackRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareFirelight by Sophie JordanThe Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Side Profile
254th out of 512 books — 74 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
British History
635th out of 786 books — 203 voters

The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
European History
673rd out of 787 books — 160 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserHenry VIII by Alison Weir
Best Non-Fiction Books about Tudor England
189th out of 219 books — 68 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
249th out of 477 books — 95 voters


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