2026 Reading Challenge

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas AdamsDeath by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
Tea Time!
358 books — 114 voters
The Power of Shamanism and Energy Medicine by Sheldon ShalleyThe Kybalion by Three InitiatesThe Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. HallThe Enneads by PlotinusThe Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean by Maurice Doreal
Library of Gnosis
146 books — 50 voters

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna AardemaMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeAnansi the Spider by Gerald McDermottBringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna AardemaSleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Picture Books on Africa
361 books — 48 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaolaThe Night of Las Posadas by Tomie dePaolaThe Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell HuntThe Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
Cultural Wonderland
55 books — 44 voters

The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat RectorThe Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. HarrisAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Best fiction for non-Wiccan pagans/polytheists
113 books — 40 voters
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyThe Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonBeowulf by UnknownThe Saga of the Volsungs by AnonymousThe Poetic Edda by Unknown
Top Books on Germanic Paganism
114 books — 38 voters

Jesus Feminist by Sarah BesseyWomanist Bioethics by Wylin D. WilsonInside The Gender Jihad by Amina WadudShe Who Is by Elizabeth A. Johnson"Believing Women" in Islam by Asma Barlas
Nonfiction on feminism & religion
143 books — 26 voters
Sea People by Christina ThompsonCook by Nicholas ThomasWe, the Navigators by David LewisPacific Worlds by Matt K. MatsudaThe Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Pacific Non-Fiction
163 books — 9 voters

British Goblins by Wirt SikesThe Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. ChesnuttSouthern Folk Medicine by Phyllis D. LightThe Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine M. BriggsTraveling the High Way Home by John Wright
"Tradition"
283 books — 9 voters
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiIf Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki KawamuraPeople From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi KawakamiKitchen by Banana YoshimotoThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Culture And Language Japanese Works In Translation
76 books — 8 voters

The Wicker Man by Robin HardyThe May Day Mystery by Mabel Esther AllanGreenwitch by Susan CooperMaypoles, Crayfish and Lucia by Jan-Öjvind SwahnDeath in the Morning by Sheila Radley
May Day Festivities
72 books — 7 voters
Victory Over The Devil by FP EbireriAbandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de CaussadeLeft to Tell by Immaculée IlibagizaThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisThe Great Adventure Catholic Bible by Anonymous
Books Every Catholic Needs to Read
105 books — 6 voters

Children of the Corn by Stephen KingThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonTurner by Karl DrinkwaterRed Shift by Alan GarnerThe Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Folk Horror And The Old Ways
32 books — 6 voters
Gebrauchsanweisung für Venedig by Dorette DeutschGebrauchsanweisung für Thailand by Martin SchachtGebrauchsanweisung für Istanbul by Kai StrittmatterGebrauchsanweisung für Island by Kristof MagnussonGebrauchsanweisung für Südtirol by Reinhold Messner
Gebrauchsanweisung für...
103 books — 5 voters

Stone Soup by Marcia BrownStone Soup by Jon J. MuthStone Soup by Heather ForestBone Soup by Cambria EvansCommunity Soup by Alma Fullerton
Stone Soup (Picture Books)
37 books — 5 voters
Avalon Within by Jhenah TelyndruAvalon Within by Jhenah TelyndruA Witch Alone by Marian GreenThe Unknown Mother by Dielle CiescoCrossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Avalonian Tradition
21 books — 4 voters

Social Engineering Hiding in Plain Sight by Patricia ArnoldThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannDracula by Dacre StokerSocial Engineering Hiding in Plain Sight by Patricia ArnoldWallenstein by Golo Mann
Books by Author Families
22 books — 3 voters
Silver on the Tree by Susan CooperThe Box of Delights by John MasefieldThe Merry Wives of Windsor by William ShakespearePagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction by Peter BramwellThe Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner
Herne the Hunter, Horn Dance, Stag Chase & related folklore
34 books — 3 voters

Puteri Tioman the Green Turtle by Rossiti Aishah RashidiMila’s World 1 by Maslina YusoffMila’s World 2 by Maslina Yusoff
Children Books by Malay Authors
3 books — 1 voter
Indigenous Religions by Ann Marie B. BahrIndigenous Religions by Graham HarveyAnimism by Graham HarveyThe Deities Are Many by Jordan PaperNear-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions by Gregory Shushan
Ethnic religions
100 books — 1 voter

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