Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by lotus eater (11 Lists)



We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJude the Obscure by Thomas HardySilas Marner by George EliotThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
174 books — 91 voters
Nevada by Imogen BinnieStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith RussoWhipping Girl by Julia SeranoRedefining Realness by Janet Mock
Trans Books by Trans Authors
585 books — 415 voters

Transgender Warriors by Leslie FeinbergStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Gay Revolution by Lillian FadermanWe Both Laughed in Pleasure by Lou Sullivan“Masquerading in Male Attire” by Kerry Segrave
ftm / trans man / transmasculine / transmasc history
80 books — 3 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 324 voters

Undoing Gender by Judith ButlerIs Gender Fluid? by Sally HinesGender by Meg-John BarkerUprooted by Peter J. BoniSeeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon
On Feminism, Gender and the Spectrum of Identity
8 books — 3 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,049 books — 2,109 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,845 books — 2,005 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,501 voters

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-MartinSummer Sons by Lee MandeloHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteExquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. BriteThe Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Trans Horror #ownvoices
45 books — 20 voters
The Dawnhounds by Sascha StronachRedefining Realness by Janet MockJust Happy to Be Here by Naomi KanakiaSmall Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-YangFairest by Meredith Talusan
Books by Transfeminine Authors of Color
163 books — 9 voters

Black on Both Sides by C. Riley SnortonBorn on the Edge of Race and Gender by Willy WilkinsonBoys Run the Riot, Vol. 1 by Keito GakuThe Passing Playbook by Isaac FitzsimonsThe Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Transmasc Authors of Color
57 books — 5 voters