Big Books of 2026

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El otoño del patriarca by Gabriel García MárquezLa fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas LlosaYo el supremo by Augusto Roa BastosEl recurso del método by Alejo CarpentierEL GENERAL EN SU LABERINTO by Gabriel García Márquez
Dictadorzuelos
23 books — 2 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaI Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Czech Books
161 books — 117 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TLS The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War
101 books — 88 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 324 voters

The Histories by HerodotusA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićDeath and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićProkleta avlija by Ivo AndrićJeževa kućica by Branko ĆopićThe Fortress by Meša Selimović
Best South Slavic Literature
363 books — 306 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCandide by VoltaireLa vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by Lazarillo de TormesGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best Picaresque Novels
127 books — 75 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Recognitions by William GaddisHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Geniuses: Books by MacArthur Fellows
122 books — 40 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Ascent of Money by Niall FergusonEmpires of the Sea by Roger CrowleyA People's History of the World by Chris HarmanThe Bitter Road to Freedom by William I. Hitchcock
The Independent's "The Ten Best History Books"
10 books — 24 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Sorrentino's Syllabus
60 books — 31 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters


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