Big Books of 2026

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Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsExcellent Women by Barbara Pym
A Middlebrow Syllabus
100 books — 73 voters
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. JamesThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. SayersI Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude HoughtonStill She Wished for Company by Margaret IrwinLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books by number 1-100
100 books — 7 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund CrispinThe Big Four by Agatha ChristieThe Perfect Crime by Israel Zangwill
The Detective Club
51 books — 17 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Literary Historical Fiction
710 books — 255 voters

The Great Alone by Kristin HannahMy Dear Hamilton by Stephanie DrayThe Romanov Empress by C.W. GortnerThe Blue by Nancy BilyeauCirce by Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction 2018
420 books — 976 voters
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffJane Austen's Letters by Jane AustenLetters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartThe Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre AbélardWest from Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Women's Correspondence - Letters in History
212 books — 69 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Vintage Authors Series
87 books — 8 voters
Selected Stories of Morley Roberts by Morley RobertsHester by Mrs. OliphantMiss Marjoribanks by Mrs. OliphantThe American Senator by Anthony TrollopePhoebe Junior by Mrs. Oliphant
Victorian Obscure
112 books — 40 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierSecrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey JamesNine Coaches Waiting by Mary StewartMistress of Mellyn by Victoria HoltThe Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt
20th Century Gothic Romances
255 books — 55 voters
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberFingersmith by Sarah WatersPossession by A.S. ByattTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Best Victorian Historical Fiction Set In Britain
296 books — 648 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,220 books — 1,701 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Historical Fiction - France
512 books — 324 voters


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