2026 Reading Challenge

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
War has no winners
1,134 books — 489 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienA Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two by Michael G. KramerMagenta by John Payton FodenConfederates by Thomas KeneallyAfter Dunkirk by Lee Jackson
Plight of a Nation
1,147 books — 400 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellNight by Elie Wiesel
Human Rights
548 books — 234 voters
Forbidden by Tabitha SuzumaLIAM by R. Janet WalravenWe Were Liars by E. LockhartThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)
234 books — 165 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael Herr
Cambodia and Vietnam
214 books — 161 voters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchLeft to Tell by Immaculée IlibagizaShake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha PowerMachete Season by Jean Hatzfeld
Books on Rwanda genocide
90 books — 102 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dystopias with gender- or religion-specific phobics
199 books — 91 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia FurstenbergNumber the Stars by Lois LowryMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Honoring Jews From All Over Europe
115 books — 87 voters

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiCity of Thorns by Ben RawlenceThe Damned Balkans by John FarebrotherTell It to the World by Eliott BeharThe Story Keeper by Fred Feldman
Refugee Reading
63 books — 46 voters
First They Killed My Father by Loung UngIn the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerNever Fall Down by Patricia McCormickThe Gate by François BizotSurvival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
Cambodia
84 books — 42 voters

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else" by Ronald Grigor SunyThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz WerfelA Shameful Act by Taner AkçamOrhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Armenian Genocide
155 books — 38 voters
Sketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Wedding of Zein by Tayeb SalihThe Sudan Handbook by John Ryle
Sudan and South Sudan
79 books — 37 voters

Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-FentonI Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay DupuisFive Little Indians by Michelle GoodWhen We Were Alone by David Alexander RobertsonNo Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen
Residential Schools
74 books — 32 voters
Maybe You Will Survive by Aron GoldfarbThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus I by Art SpiegelmanAmerican Holocaust by David E. StannardMaus II by Art Spiegelman
Holocaust And Crimes Against Humanity Books
110 books — 28 voters

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerThe Rent Collector by Camron WrightFigurehead by Patrick AllingtonThe Map of Lost Memories by Kim FayHoliday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay
Fictitious Cambodia.
15 books — 17 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettAnother Country by James BaldwinI Never Had It Made by Jackie RobinsonBeloved by Toni Morrison
Racism And Race Hate Exposed in Fact And Fiction
119 books — 15 voters

The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker by Scott M. NeumanThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansMy New Order by Adolf HitlerThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz by Patricia PosnerThe Pendulum by Julie Lindahl
Nazi Germany Non fiction
27 books — 14 voters
Postcards from the Grave by Emir SuljagićThe Bosnia List by Kenan TrebincevicSafe Area Gora de by Joe SaccoSarajevo Daily by Tom GjeltenBorn in Sarajevo by Snježana Marinković
Books about the Bosnian Genocide
36 books — 11 voters

One Day in October by Yair AgmonWe Will Dance Again by Aviva GatRoad to October 7 by Erik SkareBattles in White by Yael DreznikGaza Faces History by Enzo Traverso
War Against Hamas (Testimonies about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the Gaza War)
107 books — 10 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl1984 by George Orwell
Human Atrocities
47 books — 7 voters

The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. MorrisFrontiers by Noël MostertThe Dead Will Arise by J.B. PeiresRogues, Rebels and Runaways by Nigel PennKrotoa-eva by Kwela Books
Colonial South Africa
110 books — 5 voters
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible by Steve WellsDrunk with Blood by Steve WellsAwkward Moments by Horus GilgameshAwkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children's Bible,... by Horus GilgameshAwkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children's Bible,... by Horus Gilgamesh
The Christian Bible for Atheists
19 books — 4 voters

The World After Gaza by Pankaj MishraIf I Must Die by Refaat AlareerGaza Faces History by Enzo TraversoWho Will Tell My Story? by AnonymousOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Gaza Genocide
26 books — 4 voters
The Story of Ukraine by Olena KharchenkoМайя та її мами by Лариса ДенисенкоHow War Changed Rondo by Romana RomanyshynНе той хлопчик by Andriy KokotukhaЛисти на війну / Letters On The War by Olena Staranchuk
Ukrainian Children Books on War and Displacement- Українські дитячі книжки про війну та переселення
12 books — 3 voters

Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas TottleAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensThe Ukrainian famine-genocide myth by John PuntisPure Soldiers or Sinister Legion by Sol LittmanI Married a Russian by Lucie Street
Ukrainophobic Books - Українофобські книги
48 books — 3 voters
Antunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawThe Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry BirdgenawThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Apprentice's Sorcerer by Ishay LandaLiberalism by Domenico Losurdo
Liberalism & Fascism - Capitalism
25 books — 3 voters

Death by Government by R.J. RummelThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz by Patricia PosnerGreat Wars And Great Leaders by Ralph RaicoAtrocitology by Matthew WhiteVehmgerichte und Hexenprozesse in Deutschland by Oskar Wächter
Books on Democide
8 books — 2 voters
Серце, плач by Glenn RingtvedCry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn RingtvedНебеса Анни by Stian HoleWhiskers the Lonely Kitten by Holly WebbСибірські хайку by Jurga Vilė
Children Books in Ukrainian on Death and Grief - Дитячі книжки про смерть і проживання горя
17 books — 2 voters

Вони перемогли. 11 історій про людей з ранами - видимими і не... by Анастасія ФедченкоГарбузовий рік by Kateryna BabkinaЗайчик-нестрибайчик та його смілива мама by Оксана ДрачковськаОця Марія звірів малювала by Світлана ТараторінаДівчата зрізають коси by Євгенія Подобна
Books in Ukrainian on Life with Disability - Книжки де присутні герої з інвалідністю
20 books — 1 voter
Facing the Lion by Simone Arnold LiebsterBehind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. WilliamsA Faraway Island by Annika ThorRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li JiangBetween Shades of Gray by Andrew Donkin
The Children Shall Lead
69 books — 1 voter

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