Big Books of 2026

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre LordeNotes on Nationalism by George OrwellLetter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Three Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaThe Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
Penguin Modern
50 books — 51 voters
A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWhy I Write by George OrwellBooks v. Cigarettes by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 101 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiS. by J.J. AbramsCloud Atlas by David MitchellIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
304 books — 549 voters
Escape from the Antarctic by Ernest ShackletonThe Cobra's Heart by Ryszard KapuścińskiAcross the Empty Quarter by Wilfred ThesigerSnakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants by HerodotusFrom The Meadows of Gold by al-Mas'udi
Penguin Great Journeys
20 books — 4 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonTender Is The Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldDubliners by James Joyce
Penguin Essentials Collection
59 books — 10 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark HaddonDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Vintage 21
21 books — 28 voters

Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinFirst Love by Ivan TurgenevThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo TolstoyBonjour Tristesse by Françoise SaganA Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Penguin Great Loves
21 books — 37 voters
Chess by Stefan ZweigIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Machine Stops by E.M. ForsterBabylon Revisited by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Penguin Mini Modern Classics
50 books — 55 voters

Emma by Jane AustenThe Christmas Books by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSonnets and Poems by William ShakespeareSherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
White's Books Ltd. Collection
8 books — 2 voters
Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Michael O'Mara Collection
4 books — 2 voters

Försvararna by Philip K. DickEn familjemiddag by Kazuo IshiguroEn dåres anteckningar by Nikolai GogolKärleksprövningen by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyElla gör sig fri by Karin Boye
Novellix
206 books — 12 voters