Big Books of 2026

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In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,345 books — 1,886 voters
Shanghai Girls by Lisa SeeWhite Shanghai by Elvira BaryakinaThe Distant Land of My Father by Bo CaldwellUnsavory Elements by Tom CarterEmpire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Books set in SHANGHAI
57 books — 49 voters

The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasTwisted Reasons by Geza TatrallyayTwisted Traffick by Geza TatrallyayThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanAgency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid Muhammad
International Thrillers
103 books — 86 voters
L'amica geniale by Elena FerranteAccabadora by Michela MurgiaSostiene Pereira by Antonio TabucchiTi prendo e ti porto via by Niccolò AmmanitiQ by Luther Blissett
Italian Literature (1995-today): contemporarary Italy
107 books — 13 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Espionage
985 books — 1,020 voters
The Shape of Water by Andrea CamilleriThe Savage Shore by David HewsonFive Urban Stories ... and Something Better by Thomas DalcolleThe Eighth Hill by Marek Z. TurnerThe Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
Italian Crime
51 books — 15 voters

The Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBeneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. SullivanThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnCode Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
WW2: The Resistance - Fiction & Non-Fiction
304 books — 191 voters
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyChocolat by Joanne HarrisSarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayHunting and Gathering by Anna GavaldaA Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
France in Contemporary Fiction
258 books — 181 voters

Rhinocéros by Eugène IonescoMémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite YourcenarL'Amant by Marguerite DurasBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganUne si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ
French literature 1950-2000
90 books — 28 voters
Le Passager by Jean-Christophe GrangéIl ne faut pas parler dans l'ascenseur by Martin MichaudLa Conjuration primitive by Maxime ChattamRedemption by Danny DufourAlex by Pierre Lemaitre
Le thriller franco/Thrillers written in French
40 books — 8 voters