Big Books of 2026

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
600 books — 428 voters
The Dead and the Living by Sharon OldsBluets by Maggie NelsonLabyrinth Heart by NaiadWhat is Left of Us by Shreya MauryaBullets and Silver Linings by Lorelei .
Best Contemporary Female Poets
127 books — 20 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 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

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCitizen by Claudia RankineCane by Jean ToomerJazz by Toni Morrison
WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?
30 books — 29 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelMiss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
2,982 books — 2,422 voters

A Killing in the Sun by Dilman DilaThe Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaThis House is Not for Sale by E.C. OsonduThe Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician by Tendai Huchu
The Best African Novels of 2015
10 books — 2 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
Women in Translation
924 books — 305 voters