2026 Reading Challenge

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Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa KleypasThe Duchess Deal by Tessa DareDevil in Winter by Lisa KleypasIt Happened One Autumn by Lisa KleypasAgain the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
Class Differences in Historical Romance
262 books — 119 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellFreedom by Jonathan Franzen
Suburban Fiction
128 books — 62 voters

The Book of Rook by Cindy SantiagoOnce Upon a Lie by Michael R. FrenchAfter the Night by Linda HowardA Summer of Secrets by Lorna PeelDream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Class Differences in Contemporary Romance
87 books — 55 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinEnough Said by Mark John ThompsonThe Liberal Record by Marcelo Brazzi
Mainstream Political and Economic Commentary
154 books — 40 voters

The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningFive Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership by Sharon I RaddStuck Improving by Decoteau J. IrbyPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireThe Orphan Conspiracies by James Morcan
Social Justice: Books About Class and Education
39 books — 33 voters
Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis GrahamBeyond the Fountain of Youth by Julian Robert Gershon Jr.There Was a Crooked Man by Katrina MorganHaving Our Say by Sarah L. DelanyNegroland by Margo Jefferson
Non-Fiction Books on the African-American Middle, Upper, and Elite Class
97 books — 29 voters

Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe End of Woman by Carrie GressTwenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
First Wave Feminism
81 books — 22 voters
Sag Harbor by Colson WhiteheadNo One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell WattsI Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillanWho Asked You? by Terry McMillanWhen Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams
Fiction Books Featuring the African-American Middle and Upper Class
37 books — 8 voters

I Will Steal You the Stars by Alivia FleurListen to the Moon by Rose LernerThe Tinner's Daughter by Rosemary AitkenAn Unseen Attraction by K.J. CharlesThe Miller's Daughter by Margaret Dickinson
Historical Romance books were both the heroine and hero are servants or working class/commoners etc. (NOT upper-class or aristocracy/titled/nobles or wealthy/rich main characters.)
10 books — 3 voters

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