The Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge So Far

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A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
475 books — 94 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Bird by Bird by Anne LamottWriting Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Best Books on Writing
791 books — 1,324 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,176 books — 1,110 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,136 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 249 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,104 books — 1,755 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
133 books — 142 voters
Good Omens by Terry PratchettThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDracula by Bram Stoker
Sympathy for the Devil
330 books — 318 voters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWe Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
50 Books By African Women That Everyone Should Read
53 books — 132 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Good Lord Bird by James McBrideSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardWe Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoWizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalists/Nominees
108 books — 21 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hardscrabble Life
407 books — 116 voters
Tempest Rising by Diane McKinney-WhetstoneDaughter by Asha BandeleThe Sacred Place by Daniel BlackLike Trees, Walking by Ravi HowardA Taste of Honey by Jabari Asim
Hidden Gems: Virtually Unknown African-American Historical Fiction & Classics
69 books — 23 voters