Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Darina (9 Lists)



How We Got to Now by Steven JohnsonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonCollapse by Jared DiamondFinite and Infinite Games by James P. CarseA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Nonfiction books you want to REread
68 books — 31 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1920s
67 books — 6 voters

De Monfort by Joanna BaillieThree Plays by Mae West by Mae West
Plays Written by Women
172 books — 38 voters
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul SartreThe Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de BeauvoirImperfect Garden by Tzvetan TodorovHumanly Possible by Sarah BakewellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Humanist's Bookshelf
56 books — 7 voters

Thinking In Systems by Donella H. MeadowsThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertComing of Age in Samoa by Margaret MeadA Natural History of the Senses by Diane AckermanThe Real World of Technology by Ursula Martius Franklin
Nonfiction by Female Authors
363 books — 62 voters
Why Read the Classics? by Italo CalvinoA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfOn Writing by Stephen KingThe Art of the Novel by Milan KunderaThe Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
World's greatest authors on Literature and Writing
35 books — 18 voters

In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan TodorovThe Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Lisa T. SarasohnThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Enlightenment and its Impact
271 books — 89 voters