Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephen (21 Lists)



A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Theological Weird Fiction
464 books — 283 voters
Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts by Allen GreenfieldCommunion by Whitley StrieberDimensions by Jacques F. Vallée
Hellier Bibliography
26 books — 8 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,076 books — 282,646 voters
Quatermass by Nigel Kneale
Ley Lines, Ancient Roads, and Nemeta in Fiction
65 books — 10 voters

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. HughesHouse Made of Dawn by N. Scott MomadayDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Professor's House by Willa CatherBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Books Set in New Mexico
626 books — 167 voters
The Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneGuy Debord and the Situationist International by Tom McDonoughLondon Orbital by Iain SinclairLights Out for the Territory by Iain SinclairThe Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Psychogeography
210 books — 39 voters

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,500 voters
The New Roadside America by Mike WilkinsRemembering Roadside America by John A. JakleLearning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi
Roadside... y'all
57 books — 6 voters

The New Roadside America by Mike WilkinsThe Last Stop by Ryann FordRoadside America by John MargoliesRoadside America by Jack BarthGas, Food, and Lodging by John Baeder
Roadside America
12 books — 2 voters
The Fool Killer by Helen EustisThe Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade WellmanJohn the Balladeer by Manly Wade WellmanThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
North American Otherly Pastoral
21 books — 2 voters

Ghosts of My Life by Mark FisherThe Weird and the Eerie by Mark FisherA Year In The Country by Stephen PrinceA Year in the Country by Stephen PrinceDiscovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler
Hauntology
21 books — 5 voters
The Dancing Man by P.M. HubbardQuatermass by Nigel KnealeChildren of the Stones by Jeremy BurnhamOver Sea, Under Stone by Susan CooperReturn to the Stones by Jeremy Burnham
Stone Circles
182 books — 47 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Best British Science Fiction
181 books — 57 voters
Stag Boy by William RaynerHeavy Time by Sonia OverallThe Old Weird Albion by Justin HopperGhostland by Edward ParnellEngland on Fire by Stephen Ellcock
Psychick Albion
67 books — 3 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinRosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,778 voters
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffDeliverance by James Dickey
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters

John the Balladeer by Manly Wade WellmanThe Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade WellmanThe Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
Fantasy Novels Set in Appalachia
37 books — 12 voters
Silver on the Tree by Susan CooperThe Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively
The Wild Hunt
119 books — 23 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonOrientalism by Edward W. Said
Books White People Need to Read
1,304 books — 1,559 voters
The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew PettegreeThe Coming of the Book by Lucien FebvreGeographies of the Book by Charles W.J. WithersLondon Book Trade by Robin MyersAmerican Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 by Meredith L. McGill
Print Culture & the History of the Book
77 books — 4 voters

The quiet river by P.M. HubbardThe Dancing Man by P.M. HubbardWhat Dreams May Come by Manly Wade WellmanThe Hollowing by Robert HoldstockAncient Echoes by Robert Holdstock
Folk Horror
333 books — 157 voters