Big Books of 2026

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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
Hot Money by Naomi KleinNo One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta ThunbergFood Rules by Michael PollanAll Art is Ecological by Timothy MortonThis Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
Penguin Green Ideas Series
20 books — 3 voters

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
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

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 206 voters
The Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryLong Island by Colm TóibínThe Coast Road by Alan MurrinIntermezzo by Sally RooneyIs He Ever Going to Leave His Wife? by Martess Dowling
Irish Interest 2024
143 books — 22 voters

Housewife by Lisa Selin DavisTakedown by Laila MickelwaitThe Bluestockings by Susannah GibsonNot So Sorry by Kaya OakesNormal Women by Philippa Gregory
Feminist Interest 2024
167 books — 24 voters
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaDown Below by Leonora Carrington
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters

Anyone's Ghost by August ThompsonDayspring by Anthony OliveiraHenry Henry by Allen BrattonBlessings by Chukwuebuka IbehAll the World Beside by Garrard Conley
2024 Literary Fiction Featuring Queer Men
46 books — 27 voters
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
67 books — 49 voters