Big Books of 2026

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



Bury Your Gays by Sofia AjramWe Mostly Come Out At Night by Rob CostelloDiscontinue If Death Ensues by Carol GyzanderLong Division by Doug MuranoMother Knows Best by Lindy Ryan
Bram Stoker Awards 2024
52 books — 1 voter
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole TalabiThe Water Outlaws by S.L. HuangThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraTo Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill BlackgooseWe Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull
Ignyte Awards 2024 (shortlist)
31 books — 1 voter

Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez BendorfGirl Work by Zefyr LisowskiI Don't Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer EspinozaTRANZ by Spencer WilliamsIcarus by K. Ancrum
Lambda Literary Awards 2025 (shortlist) part 2
18 books — 1 voter
Anyone's Ghost by August ThompsonGreta & Valdin by Rebecca K. ReillyHow to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel LeungThe Pairing by Casey McQuistonWe Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
Lambda Literary Awards 2025 (shortlist) part 1
98 books — 2 voters

Belle of the Ball by Mari CostaBlackward by Lawrence LindellRoaming by Jillian TamakiThe Chromatic Fantasy by H.A .A Lady to Treasure by Marianne Ratcliffe
Lambda Literary Awards 2024 (part 2)
29 books — 2 voters
Big Swiss by Jen BeaginBiography of X by Catherine LaceyOrgan Meats by K-Ming ChangOur Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGillPomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee
Lambda Literary Awards 2024 (part 1)
100 books — 2 voters

Babel by R.F. KuangKaikeyi by Vaishnavi PatelSiren Queen by Nghi VoThe Blood Trials by N.E. DavenportThe Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Ignyte Award Longlist 2023
30 books — 1 voter
A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture by Violet FennContagion and the Vampire by Simon BaconA Dowry of Blood by S.T. GibsonThe God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
Lord Ruthven Awards 2023-2024
4 books — 1 voter

Shakespeare Unleashed by James AquiloneJoe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In by Christopher GoldenNever Whistle at Night by Shane HawkOut There Screaming by Jordan PeeleAmerican Cannibal by Rebecca Rowland
Bram Stoker Awards 2023
53 books — 3 voters
Always the Almost by Edward UnderhillAnder & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza VillaAs You Walk On By by Julian WintersBecoming a Queen by Dan ClayBianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
Best Fiction for Young Adults 2024 (YALSA list)
66 books — 1 voter

Not Here by Hieu Minh NguyenGOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE by jamie mortara
Poetry collections by trans / nonbinary / genderqueer etc. non-cis authors
184 books — 65 voters
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherCentral Station by Lavie TidharThe Uncanny X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Chris ClaremontGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenIshmael by Daniel Quinn
What Women Born in the 90's Have Read in 2017
2,203 books — 270 voters

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4 by G. Willow WilsonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsPaper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. VaughanNimona by N.D. StevensonEverything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
What Women Born in the 90's Have Read in 2016
2,202 books — 300 voters