Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Raven (18 Lists)



The Book of Tea by Kakuzō OkakuraTea by Tony GebelyTea by Kevin GascoyneThe Harney & Sons Guide to Tea by Michael HarneyTea Life, Tea Mind by S-Oshitsu Sen
Tea for Me, Please
142 books — 57 voters
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWittSpadework for a Palace by László KrasznahorkaiIn the Act by Rachel IngallsThe Famous Magician by César AiraEarly Light by Osamu Dazai
New Directions Storybook Collection
8 books — 4 voters

Gentry by Entailment by Achim von ArnimThe Golden Toenails of Ambrosio P. by Cecil G. HelmanTubutsch by Albert EhrensteinStories in Blue, Black, Violet, Green and Mauve by Remy de GourmontPoempoems by Oskar Pastior
The Printed Head (Atlas Press)
40 books — 2 voters
The Automatic Muse by Robert Desnos4 Dada Suicides by Arthur CravanBlago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fataka! First Texts of German Dada by Hugo BallOulipo Laboratory by Raymond QueneauMalpertuis by Jean Ray
Atlas Anti-Classics
24 books — 5 voters

Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonAurélia and Other Writings by Gérard de NervalExploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred JarryHebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaph... by Giorgio de Chirico
Exact Change Press
37 books — 6 voters
Zenobia by Gellu NaumWords Are Something Else by David AlbahariA Voice by Anzhelina PolonskayaVita Nuova by Bohumil HrabalThe Victory by Henryk Grynberg
Writings from an Unbound Europe
64 books — 4 voters

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara ComynsThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora CarringtonIn the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela DraegerA Horse at Night by Amina CainSome of Them Will Carry Me by Giada Scodellaro
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
33 books — 28 voters
The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan by Meng Hao-janHarlequin's Millions by Bohumil HrabalMute Objects of Expression by Francis PongeA Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri RytkheuStroke by Stroke by Henri Michaux
Archipelago Books
117 books — 14 voters

Seiobo There Below by László KrasznahorkaiSatantango by László KrasznahorkaiThe True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Best Translated Book Award Winners
13 books — 2 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryA Day Off by Storm Jameson
A Single Day
141 books — 105 voters

Little, Big by John CrowleyAda, or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Popsugar 2021 #9 - A Book with a Family Tree
162 books — 262 voters
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley CrawfordAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienNightwood by Djuna BarnesLocos by Felipe AlfauA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters

Sea of Ink by Richard WeihePortrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian DeliusStone in a Landslide by Maria BarbalThe Mussel Feast by Birgit VanderbekeBeside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Peirene Press
56 books — 29 voters
The Summer Book by Tove JanssonStoner by John WilliamsA Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh FermorOnce and Forever by Kenji MiyazawaThe Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 891 voters

Tales of Galicia by Andrzej StasiukPrimeval and Other Times by Olga TokarczukMarketa Lazarová by Vladislav VančuraValerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vítězslav NezvalBlaugast by Paul Leppin
Twisted Spoon Press
66 books — 5 voters
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesLes Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontKornél Esti by Dezső KosztolányiParis Spleen by Charles BaudelaireNo Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

The Book of Monelle by Marcel SchwobThe Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educatio... by Pierre LouÿsPataphysical Essays by René DaumalA Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle A... by Pierre LussonThe Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn
Wakefield Press
81 books — 13 voters
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding ... by C.D. WrightThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter WeissA Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the We... by László KrasznahorkaiA True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands... by Josh RussellA Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle A... by Pierre Lusson
Books with Really Long Titles
1,670 books — 342 voters