Big Books of 2026

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Trevor Noah's Literary Guests
264 books — 85 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,702 books — 3,735 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienA Bright Shining Lie by Neil SheehanMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 175 voters
Just Mercy by Bryan StevensonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningAbolition For The People by Colin KaepernickThe Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko
Inside the Criminal Justice System
159 books — 49 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Books for Post-Election Understanding
198 books — 141 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy2666 by Roberto BolañoButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Hip Opinions
313 books — 115 voters