Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ami (7 Lists)



Snow White by Donald BarthelmeThe Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,797 books — 9,160 voters
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence JamesThe Natural History of Make-Believe by John GoldthwaiteAnti-Oedipus by Gilles DeleuzeCrowds and Power by Elias CanettiThe Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,061 voters

Nausea by Jean-Paul SartreTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Wall by Jean-Paul SartreThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilFranz Kafka's The Castle by David Fishelson
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,725 voters
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWhite Noise by Don DeLilloUlysses by James JoyceKaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,605 voters

The Hours by Michael CunninghamMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,689 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,102 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,788 voters