Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Corey Schuler (12 Lists)



Entangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenGathering Moss by Robin Wall KimmererThe Overstory by Richard Powers
Woo-woo Plant Science
161 books — 62 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganCosmos by Carl SaganBad Science by Ben GoldacreWhy People Believe Weird Things by Michael ShermerThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
A Skeptic's Library
170 books — 127 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,851 books — 2,013 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,139 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini1984 by George OrwellA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Non-American books that every American should read
694 books — 494 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,017 books — 596 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtDubliners by James JoyceDracula by Bram StokerUlysses by James Joyce
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 720 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 270 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,998 voters
Longitude by Dava SobelThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonMaphead by Ken JenningsAtlas of Remote Islands by Judith SchalanskyTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Cartography: Maps
184 books — 85 voters


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