Big Books of 2026

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Lean In by Sheryl SandbergWords That Change Minds by Shelle Rose CharvetThe Magic of Thinking Big by David J. SchwartzEnough by Sharon JaynesShe Who Wins by Renée C. Bauer
Best Books for Working Women
175 books — 228 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)
1,753 books — 1,632 voters

Writing Tips From Authors - And how they became published aut... by Patti Roberts52 Weeks of Writing Tips by Bob NailorThe Art of War for Writers by James Scott BellWriting Tools by Roy Peter ClarkBook Title Generator by Scott Lorenz
Writing Tips
31 books — 44 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
798 books — 1,327 voters

The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen CorasantiMornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaGaza Writes Back by Refaat AlareerThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéI Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
Books on the Israel Palestine Conflict (fiction and nonfiction)
461 books — 708 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,513 books — 3,515 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienUlysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Dovekeepers by Alice HoffmanSamarkand by Amin MaaloufThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
History through Novels: Pre-1900s Middle East
101 books — 59 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniPalace Walk by Naguib MahfouzPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiMidaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Middle East
129 books — 83 voters
The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa AshourFriendly Fire by Alaa Al AswanyChicago by Alaa Al AswanyI Saw Ramallah by Mourid BarghoutiNo One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
The American University in Cairo Press - Fiction in Translation
134 books — 11 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
407 books — 627 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters


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