Big Books of 2026

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Stoner by John WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 891 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
Women in Translation
923 books — 304 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,248 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
100 books — 229 voters

Z213 by Dimitris LyacosYouth Without God by Ödön von HorváthThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyOjo por ojo by J.K. FrankoThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Around the World Literature
299 books — 124 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,755 books — 1,632 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Classics By Women
100 books — 61 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 497 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
600 books — 203 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Art of War by Sun TzuAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Books BCE
121 books — 29 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Republic by PlatoThe Histories by Herodotus
Classical World Reading List
116 books — 70 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters


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