Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Ben Weinstein (12 Lists)



All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Proud Tower by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
A Heady Brew - Weimar Germany (1918-1933)
125 books — 33 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerIron Kingdom by Christopher ClarkThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
German History
596 books — 154 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars
103 books — 25 voters

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de MaupassantDirty Snow by Georges SimenonThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyPietr the Latvian by Georges SimenonDesert by J.M.G. Le Clézio
French Literature in English Translation
95 books — 12 voters
The Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max WeberLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Histories by Herodotus
Best Books on Historical Theory
64 books — 23 voters

The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond AronThe Captive Mind by Czesław MiłoszMephisto by Klaus MannThy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 by Nirad C. ChaudhuriMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cultural Amnesia: A Reading List
116 books — 7 voters
Suttree by Cormac McCarthyWar & War by László KrasznahorkaiMolloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettThe Waves by Virginia WoolfBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Books Which NR Ought to Read But Has Not Read YET
81 books — 43 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques RousseauOpen City by Teju ColeSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
If You Like W.G. Sebald
118 books — 18 voters


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