Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Katie Athwal (14 Lists)



The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail LermontovDie Nase by Nikolai Gogol
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Latin American Books
105 books — 46 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHeart of a Dog by Mikhail BulgakovThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
964 books — 574 voters
1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
1,551 books — 550 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,607 books — 13,151 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,438 books — 17,764 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,507 books — 5,814 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo CalvinoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaFictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Plague by Albert CamusSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,081 books — 369 voters

The nightingales are drunk by HafezThe Old Man of the Moon by Shěn FùA Slip under the Microscope by H.G. WellsSpeaking of Siva by A.K. RamanujanThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 207 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,792 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,025 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Judge me by my books.
35 books — 8 voters