Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joseph Schreiber (19 Lists)



The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice LispectorThe Emigrants by W.G. SebaldOn the Edge by Rafael ChirbesAdventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda
Best Translated Book Award Fiction Shortlist 2016
10 books — 49 voters

The Impostor by Damon GalgutThe Good Doctor by Damon GalgutThe Elusive Moth by Ingrid WinterbachThe Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello DuikerThirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker
South African fiction worth reading
143 books — 23 voters
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter HandkeSkylark by Dezső KosztolányiBerlin Stories by Robert Walser
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 891 voters

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiThe Elusive Moth by Ingrid WinterbachAgaat by Marlene van Niekerk
Women Around the World
1,161 books — 432 voters
The Alphabet of Birds by S.J. NaudéDouble Negative by Ivan Vladislavić
And Other Stories Publishing
36 books — 19 voters

The Absent Therapist by Will EavesAbsolution by Patrick FlaneryIn a Strange Room by Damon GalgutMoffie by André Carl van der Merwe
The Green Carnation Prize
84 books — 33 voters
Hansen's Children by Ognjen Spahić
Leprosy/Hansen's Disease
26 books — 14 voters

The Devil's Advocate by Morris L. WestMorality Play by Barry UnsworthThe Spire by William Golding
Vicars, Priests, Abbots, Fathers, Abbesses, Pastors, Nuns
782 books — 287 voters
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
2014: The Over 35s favourite books of 2014
194 books — 44 voters

Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,608 books — 1,250 voters
Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Best of J.G. Ballard
25 books — 17 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace StegnerMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters
The Complete Illuminated Books by William Blake
The Book of Revelation
75 books — 59 voters

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Who Should Win the 2013 Walter Scott Prize?
6 books — 26 voters
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Steampunk Books
1,250 books — 4,094 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,423 books — 12,563 voters