Big Books of 2026

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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoSwimming Lessons by Claire FullerAmerican War by Omar El AkkadHuman Acts by Han KangHomesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Outlandish Lit 2017 Fiction Preview
51 books — 60 voters
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangExhalation by Ted ChiangThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyBloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. ButlerThe Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny
Science Fiction Short Story Collections
208 books — 76 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,573 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
442 books — 578 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
Forrest Gump by Winston GroomThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonJumanji by Chris Van AllsburgMary Poppins by P.L. Travers
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,222 books — 6,121 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSolaris by Stanisław LemThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Translated Speculative Fiction
382 books — 204 voters
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellWomen Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésFrom the Beast to the Blonde by Marina WarnerThe Classic Fairy Tales by Maria TatarThe Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack D. Zipes
Myth and Fantasy Studies
98 books — 59 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
600 books — 203 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëBeloved by Toni Morrison
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1,194 books — 337 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ulysses by James JoyceIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Style as Text
251 books — 129 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesIn Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
After DFW's "Eclectic/Obscure Fictions for Writers" Syllabus
79 books — 47 voters


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