Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brendan Coster (10 Lists)



Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinRingworld by Larry Niven
Science Fiction and Fantasy Must Reads
3,943 books — 4,998 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad by HomerParadise Lost by John Milton
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,282 voters

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Grimdarks
479 books — 1,173 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodEmbassytown by China Miéville
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,208 books — 8,952 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Best of Ray Bradbury
102 books — 244 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryThe Odyssey by HomerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,460 books — 119,776 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirMaking Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin
What We're Reading at Goodreads: September 2015
750 books — 816 voters
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. Feynman
Scientists and Philosophers
233 books — 157 voters

Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Best Steampunk Books
1,243 books — 4,094 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLolita by Vladimir NabokovFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters