Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nathan Davis (20 Lists)



The Ghost Writer by Philip RothPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Best Philip Roth Books
32 books — 104 voters
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors
1,002 books — 892 voters

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature
48 books — 58 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWhere I'm Calling From by Raymond CarverAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothOperation Shylock by Philip Roth
The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
40 books — 92 voters

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
464 books — 261 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Hey, chicks can write, too!
1,082 books — 223 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 989 voters
The Yellow Birds by Kevin PowersThe Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachThe Human Stain by Philip RothThe Road by Cormac McCarthyPastoralia by George Saunders
GQ The New Canon: The 21 Books from the 21st Century Every Man Should Read
21 books — 16 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
War, Soldiers, Combat
178 books — 63 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir NabokovFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 967 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,719 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Weirdest Books Ever
1,193 books — 1,184 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Detective Fiction
1,187 books — 1,082 voters
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,951 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George CarlinThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Book Titles
11,480 books — 7,863 voters

Run With the Hunted by Charles Bukowski
Walterich books for writers
17 books — 4 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert CamusBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleNight by Elie Wiesel
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,442 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Read These In School - Liked Them Anyway
340 books — 470 voters
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael MooreDune by Frank HerbertWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,874 voters