Big Books of 2026

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84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffEx Libris by Anne FadimanThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterBook Lust by Nancy PearlThe Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading
1,036 books — 529 voters
Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Biographies of Place
279 books — 52 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,124 books — 2,360 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,702 books — 3,736 voters

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGrawThe Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Books For The Sonlight History Programs
189 books — 27 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićThe Trigger by Tim ButcherBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca WestBalkan Ghosts by Robert D. KaplanPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Balkans
279 books — 210 voters

Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K. GannWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Aviation Books
396 books — 180 voters
Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K. GannThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeFerry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamStick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche
Aviation, Aerospace and Flight.
158 books — 72 voters