2026 Reading Challenge

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The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
400 books — 296 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cambridge University
238 books — 62 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Oxford University
327 books — 56 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
142 books — 33 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cornell University
119 books — 24 voters
These Violent Delights by Micah NemereverReal Life by Brandon TaylorMaurice by E.M. ForsterBabel by R.F. KuangDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Campus/Academic Novels for and about Marginalized Groups
76 books — 13 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusOration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della MirandolaThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Alma Mater Studiorum: Università di Bologna
61 books — 11 voters
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloRobert Schumann by John WorthenThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxMax Bruch by Christopher Fifield
Bonn University
99 books — 9 voters

King Street Run by V.R. LingThe Secret History by Donna TarttAll Mortal Greatness by Nelson CoverFor the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman
Best Campus Crime Thrillers
10 books — 7 voters
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreightThey Wish They Were Us by Jessica GoodmanThe League of Frightened Men by Rex StoutSwimming with the Sharks by Debbie Reed FischerSisterhood Above All by Kathleen Barber
Hazing in fiction
31 books — 4 voters

Easy by Al JarreauWe're in This Love Together Sheet Music by Keith StegallDispatches from the Former Evil Empire by Richard ThrelkeldSouth to Selma by Gary G. YerkeyStill Time to Live by Gary G. Yerkey
Ripon College
100 books — 1 voter
Franny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
post-graduation angst
6 books — 1 voter

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