Big Books of 2026

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The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. BallardAngry Women by V. ValeIncredibly Strange Music, Volume II by A. JunoIncredibly Strange Music, Vol. One by V. ValeDangerous Drawings by Andrea Juno
Re/Search & V/Search & Juno
45 books — 12 voters
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon PadgettThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzIn the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran
Ligottian
58 books — 22 voters

Witkin by Joel-Peter WitkinDream Anatomy by Michael SappolThe Perfect Medium by Clément ChérouxThe Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection by Ikkaku OchiHaunted Air by Ossian Brown
•Inside Out Photografur Coats Are Murder
110 books — 2 voters
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontDiableries by Brian MayThe City of Dreadful Night by James ThomsonFantazius Mallare by Ben HechtMalformed by Adam Voorhes
•The Ultra-Black Grave of Eternity
132 books — 9 voters

Japanese Grotesqueries by Nikolas (editor) Kiej'eThe Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav KlímaFoma Jaremtschuk by Foma JaremtschukOld Floating Cloud by Can XueJonson Versus Bakhtin by Rocco Coronato
•The "Grotesque" Taco Was Also A Good Listener
98 books — 2 voters
England's Hidden Reverse by David KeenanWilliam S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin by V. ValeAssimilate by S. Alexander ReedIndustrial Culture Handbook by V. ValeAutopsia by Alexei Monroe
Industrial Culture
40 books — 11 voters

After Nothing Comes by Aidan KochCenit by María MedemConstantly by GGNubes de talco by Amanda BaezaI Am Famous on CCTV by Cory Feder
Poetic, Ethereal, Sci-fi, Dreamlike, Surreal Comics
100 books — 5 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Dreamscapes
109 books — 61 voters

Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Surreal Horror
84 books — 75 voters
House in the Tall Grass by January JosephineStinkpot by January JosephineThe Torture Garden by Octave MirbeauLes Onze Mille Verges; or, The Amorous Adventures of Prince M... by Guillaume ApollinaireSchwester Monika (Sammlung Zenodot rotische Bibliothek) by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Erotica Obscura
16 books — 7 voters

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmannうずまき [Uzumaki] by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsThe Arrival by Shaun TanNijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano
Surreal comics (with tinges of horror and humour)
160 books — 70 voters
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontNadja by André BretonThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudThe Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora Carrington
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
126 books — 104 voters