Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Harry (17 Lists)



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,790 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollDracula by Bram StokerThe Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Folio Society Editions
446 books — 66 voters

'Salem's Lot by Stephen KingThe Stand by Stephen King
Stephen King's absolute BEST novels
23 books — 18 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books for and About Activists
327 books — 307 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Secret Agent by Joseph ConradNostromo by Joseph ConradYouth by Joseph Conrad
Best Joseph Conrad Novels
33 books — 50 voters
It by Stephen KingDracula by Bram StokerMisery by Stephen KingThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Horror Novels
1,984 books — 5,447 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,811 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,392 books — 25,577 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,690 voters

The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesNo One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry HopkinsJohn Lennon by Philip Norman
Music Biographies
525 books — 236 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. FeynmanDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellTouching the Void by Joe SimpsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,814 books — 6,344 voters

The Collector by John FowlesDubliners by James JoyceTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
A List for Those Who Want to Run Screaming at the Mention of Sparkly Vampires, Fifty Shades of Abusive Relationships, or Other Assorted Mass Marketed Crap
1,173 books — 583 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,062 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,443 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,931 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsLord of the Flies by William GoldingCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,086 books — 282,720 voters