Big Books of 2026

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Framed For Murder by Marla A. WhitePopulation by Elizabeth StephensBlanche on the Lam by Barbara NeelyHollywood Homicide by Kellye GarrettThe Cutting Season by Attica Locke
Mystery & Detective Novels by Women of Color
139 books — 85 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Rory's Book Club
173 books — 91 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,008 books — 1,447 voters
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersThus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah CaudwellThe Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinIn the Last Analysis by Amanda CrossCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Mystery Novels about Academia and Academics
190 books — 17 voters

Heat of Paris by Peter BreyerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelAztec by Gary Jennings
Historical Fiction set in Latin America
160 books — 140 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieThe Round House by Louise ErdrichGreen Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Best Native American/First Nations Fiction
579 books — 353 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBaltimore Blues by Laura LippmanHomicide by David SimonDinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne TylerA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Baltimore
202 books — 46 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingWatership Down by Richard Adams
LOST Book Club
80 books — 119 voters

Black Square by Sophie PinkhamToussaint Louverture by Philippe GirardThe Witch Elm by Tana FrenchAm I Alone Here? by Peter OrnerEleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis
The New Yorker recommends
22 books — 3 voters
Girl Talk by Cassidy StormThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannDark Matter by Blake CrouchPachinko by Min Jin Lee
Book of the Month Club
144 books — 60 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Vegetarian by Han KangThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Nix by Nathan HillVersion Control by Dexter Palmer
2017 Tournament of Books
18 books — 53 voters
The Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Orphan's Tale by Pam JenoffBefore We Were Yours by Lisa WingateThe Women in the Castle by Jessica ShattuckWe Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Historical Fiction 2017
339 books — 852 voters


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