Big Books of 2026

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfLe Grand Meaulnes by Alain-FournierIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustThe Memory Police by Yōko OgawaThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Proustian Echoes
19 books — 10 voters
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

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedBeloved by Toni MorrisonErasure by Percival EverettOreo by Fran RossNegrophobia by Darius James
African-American Post–Civil Rights Experimental Literature
24 books — 14 voters
Os Maias by Eça de QueirósCousin Bazilio by Eça de QueirósLivro do desassossego by Fernando PessoaEnsaio Sobre a Cegueira by José SaramagoThe Lusiads by Luís de Camões
Portuguese Literature: What Really Matters
37 books — 16 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLysistrata by AristophanesIn Dubious Battle by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Books about Strikes
96 books — 43 voters
Selected Writings by Marguerite de NavarrePoems and Selected Letters by Veronica FrancoThe Story of Sapho by Madeleine de ScudérySonnets for Michelangelo by Vittoria ColonnaExemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion by María de Zayas Sotomayor
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series
60 books — 12 voters

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei ArmahChanges by Ama Ata AidooTail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei ParkesAn angry letter in January and other poems by Ama Ata AidooGhana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Novels from Ghana
77 books — 23 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors
170 books — 97 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
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisAin't I a Woman by bell hooksAssata by Assata ShakurSister Outsider by Audre LordeSisters in the Struggle by Bettye Collier-Thomas
Books from MHP's Black Feminism Syllabus
34 books — 11 voters

The Drunken Universe by Peter Lamborn WilsonReversible Monuments by Mónica de la TorreLanguage for a New Century by Tina ChangThe Poetry of Surrealism by Michael BenediktThe Poetry of Survival by Daniel Weissbort
Your Obscure Poetry in Translation Anthologies
86 books — 16 voters
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreNausea by Jean-Paul SartrePhenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-PontyBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreLe mur by Jean-Paul Sartre
Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and de Beauvoir
105 books — 7 voters


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