2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ray (12 Lists)



Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 261 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,091 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,136 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The ACTUAL 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
218 books — 319 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,249 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon2666 by Roberto BolañoMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
76,198 books — 283,389 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,956 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,783 voters