Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sharmon (25 Lists)



A World of Curiosities by Louise PennyTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Last Devil to Die by Richard OsmanFairy Tale by Stephen King
2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2023
6,961 books — 515 voters
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltCrying in H Mart by Michelle ZaunerTaste by Stanley TucciBlack Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
2022: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2022
6,696 books — 579 voters

The Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichThe Madness of Crowds by Louise PennyThe Book of Magic by Alice HoffmanDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoYou Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 695 voters
The Good Neighbor by Maxwell KingBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahBecoming by Michelle ObamaNight by Elie WieselEndurance by Scott Kelly
Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction and Other (Mostly) True Things
783 books — 425 voters

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensAll the Devils Are Here by Louise PennyThe Day the World Came to Town Lib/E by Jim DeFedeThe Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
2020: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2020
6,393 books — 848 voters
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa MoshfeghSimon the Fiddler by Paulette JilesValentine by Elizabeth WetmoreSomething She's Not Telling Us by Darcey Bell
Popsugar 2020 - Books Published in April
117 books — 35 voters

The Orphan's Tale by Pam JenoffThe Women in the Castle by Jessica ShattuckHis Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNealThe Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer RyanThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
WWII Historic Fiction
1,453 books — 1,527 voters
Becoming by Michelle ObamaOnce Upon a River by Diane SetterfieldThe Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert DugoniThe Good Neighbor by Maxwell KingThe Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
2019: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2019
6,620 books — 865 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 270 voters
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahUs Against You by Fredrik BackmanBefore We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
6,937 books — 980 voters

Beartown by Fredrik BackmanStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelWonder by R.J. PalacioPurgatory Ridge by William Kent KruegerThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
2017: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2017
5,977 books — 754 voters
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners by Luanne RiceFogged Inn by Barbara RossEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellFire Touched by Patricia BriggsNorth of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2016
70 books — 25 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Book Club List
739 books — 772 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline WinspearThe Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonHer Royal Spyness by Rhys BowenThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Historical Mystery
2,069 books — 4,530 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Books about Books
1,383 books — 1,518 voters
The Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahBury Your Dead by Louise Penny
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
6,075 books — 686 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieStill Life by Louise Penny
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2,203 books — 4,458 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeZ by Therese Anne FowlerWhat Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
2015: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2015
6,238 books — 1,530 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,206 books — 5,209 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,839 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMarch by Geraldine BrooksThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann BrasharesHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
intelligent women's fiction
311 books — 70 voters
The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKeanThe Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund OberbeckVintage by Susan Gloss
Dresses and Fashion
33 books — 42 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferWild by Cheryl StrayedStill Life by Louise PennyMorning Glory by Sarah Jio
2014: What the Over 35's Are Reading
2,476 books — 520 voters