Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Melissa Delbridge (8 Lists)



The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books about Being Eaten
103 books — 177 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann PancakeGiven Ground by Ann PancakeLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeDeliverance by James DickeyBrighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell
Best Books Set in Appalachia
794 books — 838 voters
Pentimento by Lillian HellmanThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrFamily Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge
Memoirs by Women
3,015 books — 3,030 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,076 books — 11,671 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerWise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Books
826 books — 739 voters

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,874 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,750 books — 25,989 voters