Big Books of 2026

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeComplications by Atul Gawande
Best Books for Medical Students
404 books — 576 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Best Books Written by BIPOC Authors
298 books — 59 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,845 books — 2,004 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
359 books — 320 voters

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisPachinko by Min Jin LeeWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
GPREBC
46 books — 4 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisNecessary Trouble by Sarah JaffeHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit101 Changemakers by Michele BollingerThis Is an Uprising by Mark Engler
Build and Fight
24 books — 2 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Library of Resistance
185 books — 67 voters
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisOur Revolution by Bernie SandersGive Us the Ballot by Ari BermanThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
The Stop Trump Reading List
150 books — 56 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,213 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,104 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Great reads about Life Sciences
105 books — 47 voters