Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Casey (Myshkin) Buell (6 Lists)



Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiV. by Thomas PynchonAmerican Pastoral by Philip Roth
Candidates for the 2012 Nobel
33 books — 31 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovBlindness by José SaramagoThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Magic Realism
162 books — 319 voters

The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskySteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Descent Into Madness Books
91 books — 55 voters
The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieShame by Salman Rushdie
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellLife & Times of Michael K by J.M. CoetzeeThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters