Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Charles (13 Lists)



Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters
The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoJeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff DyerSodom and Gomorrah by Marcel ProustMy Struggle by Karl Ove KnausgårdGardens by Robert Pogue Harrison
Beautiful Book Cover Design
911 books — 260 voters
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDune by Frank HerbertThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Odyssey by HomerAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Greatest Epics
44 books — 20 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Magical Realism
439 books — 639 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,723 voters

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books Ever
76,053 books — 282,563 voters
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters