Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Emily (147 Lists)



The Year 200 by Agustín de RojasMattimeo by Brian JacquesThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Best Books of 1990
369 books — 195 voters
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Best Books 1966
159 books — 75 voters

The Round House by Louise ErdrichA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanArchipelago by Monique Roffey
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,203 voters
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Best Books 2019
1,141 books — 1,310 voters

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad CarhartThe Apprentice by Jacques PépinLunch in Paris by Elizabeth BardSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustParis to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Books About Paris
712 books — 570 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe Loved One by Evelyn WaughAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Popsugar 2021 #4 - A Book by an Author who Shares Your Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
117 books — 39 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettState of Wonder by Ann PatchettAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
Women's Prize Winners and Nominees
150 books — 6 voters
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusNora Goes Off Script by Annabel MonaghanMemphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Best Books of 2022
1,547 books — 1,853 voters

The Midnight Library by Matt HaigOona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
Best Books of 2020
1,564 books — 1,934 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinHerland by Charlotte Perkins GilmanReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Books
2,515 books — 3,517 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenJayber Crow by Wendell BerryHannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Best Books by Kentucky Authors
81 books — 110 voters
The House on the Lagoon by Rosario FerréThe Postman by Antonio Skármeta
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,155 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréOrkney by Amy Sackville
Somerset Maugham Award Winners
110 books — 20 voters
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane GardamThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithPersuasion by Jane Austen
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Literary biographies
477 books — 95 voters
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai LeskovOn the Eve by Ivan TurgenevAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
MUST READ RUSSIAN CLASSICS
113 books — 142 voters

Musicophilia by Oliver SacksThe Rest Is Noise by Alex RossNocturnes by Kazuo IshiguroThe Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad CarhartChanging Lives by Tricia Tunstall
Best Popular Music Books on Goodreads
279 books — 33 voters
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters

Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonAli and Nino by Kurban SaidVictory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,016 books — 595 voters
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiAli and Nino by Kurban SaidSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 471 voters

James and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. KellyTik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David WyssMandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
Great Must-Read Children's Classics
141 books — 4 voters
Serve It Forth by M.F.K. FisherMastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von BremzenYes, Chef by Marcus SamuelssonThe Apprentice by Jacques PépinKitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Food Fare: Cooking Nonfiction
471 books — 25 voters

Self-Reg by Stuart ShankerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Rest is Noise by Alex RossMama, PhD by Elrena Evans
2018: What People Born in the 1980's Have Read in 2018
1,679 books — 244 voters
The House on the Strand by Daphne du MaurierEuphoria by Lily KingThe Burgess Boys by Elizabeth StroutThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
2017: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2017
1,639 books — 239 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton WilderMiddlemarch by George EliotAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1000 books to read before you die- official
472 books — 25 voters
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Best Unappreciated Books
4,358 books — 2,203 voters

Dear Committee Members by Julie SchumacherThat Hideous Strength by C.S. LewisThe Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall SmithThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoCrossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 606 voters
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank BaumPat of Silver Bush by L.M. MontgomeryLad by Albert Payson Terhune
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,923 books — 271 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
Books about opera
165 books — 56 voters
The Rest Is Noise by Alex RossEvenings With Horowitz by David DubalMusicophilia by Oliver SacksHorn by Barry Tuckwell
Classical Music: Nonfiction
300 books — 73 voters


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