Big Books of 2026

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Unknown Pleasures by Peter Hook24 Hour Party People by Tony WilsonThe Haçienda by Peter HookUnknown Pleasures by Chris OttFactory Records by Matthew Robertson
Factory Records
32 books — 5 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

Nothing to Envy by Barbara DemickEscape from Camp 14 by Blaine HardenThe Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-HwanThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonThe Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Books on North Korea
137 books — 511 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,212 voters

Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon ReynoldsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael AzerradBlack Postcards by Dean WarehamTouching from a Distance by Deborah CurtisWho Killed Martin Hannett? by Colin Sharp
'New Music' Books
115 books — 32 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Popular Penguins
200 books — 102 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters
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