Big Books of 2026

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Quiet by Susan CainEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertDaring Greatly by Brené BrownThe Last Lecture by Randy PauschThe Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
books from TED
95 books — 367 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,135 books — 1,540 voters

Mein Kampf by Adolf HitlerThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Matvei Vasilyevich GolovinskiDianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
Books Employed to Greatly Harmful Ends
217 books — 226 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,157 books — 2,281 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Mind
436 books — 462 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR by American Psychiatric Associ...The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,355 books — 1,477 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Purity Myth by Jessica ValentiFeminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksYes Means Yes! by Jaclyn FriedmanThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
The Ms. Blog's Best Feminist Non-Fiction Reads: Reader's Choice
589 books — 443 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonIf I Stay by Gayle Forman
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
2,983 books — 12,438 voters