Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Wm (10 Lists)



Blindness by José SaramagoNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,245 books — 3,415 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Classics 101
441 books — 113 voters

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovDiary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai GogolThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Best History Books
3,701 books — 3,733 voters

On War by Carl von ClausewitzA Writer at War by Vasily GrossmanOn Revolution by Hannah ArendtThe Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 by Eric J. HobsbawmThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,284 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. TolkienThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,512 books — 119,992 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Books Ever
76,103 books — 282,880 voters
The Shack by William Paul YoungEragon by Christopher Paolini
Books So Bad I Couldn't Finish...
644 books — 578 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsTrout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine D... by Richard Brautigan
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,378 voters