Big Books of 2026

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Ice by Anna KavanChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. JohnsonThe Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonImpossible Object by Nicholas MosleyThe Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
British Experimental Novels 1940-1980
90 books — 43 voters
The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Recognitions by William GaddisWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 69 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBlack Beauty by Anna SewellAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 346 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoRayuela by Julio CortázarThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Las 100 Mejores Novelas en Castellano del Siglo XX
168 books — 170 voters
Los detectives salvajes by Roberto BolañoLa vida instrucciones de uso by Georges PerecA sangre fría by Truman CapoteLibro del desasosiego by Fernando PessoaUn hombre que duerme by Georges Perec
La lista de Álvaro
100 books — 6 voters

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienUlysses by James JoyceAuto Da Fe by Elias CanettiAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Strangely constructed, alternative, different styles of novel
46 books — 13 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoFinnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceA Void by Georges PerecLife by Georges Perec
Anti-novel
113 books — 73 voters

The Waste Land by T.S. EliotFour Quartets by T.S. EliotHarmonium by Wallace StevensThe Double Dream of Spring by John AshberyCapital of Pain by Paul Éluard
Best Poetry Collections of the 20th Century
118 books — 10 voters
Niagara by Michel ButorBottom's Dream by Arno SchmidtThe System of Dante's Hell by Amiri BarakaU.S.A. by John Dos Passossound of wave in channel by Stephen Ratcliffe
Difficult Books based on this one image on Twiter
93 books — 3 voters