Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Scott Cripps (21 Lists)



A Grief Observed by C.S. LewisLament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Best Books About Grief
351 books — 265 voters
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Biographies/Autobiographies
535 books — 138 voters

Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen
Non-Obvious Great Books
113 books — 63 voters
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,232 books — 3,915 voters

The Mercy of Eternity by Eric G. Wilson
Books Worth Reading on Depression (fiction and nonfiction)
466 books — 543 voters
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,764 books — 1,645 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Book Bucket "Top 10 Books" Challenge Compilation
1,081 books — 369 voters
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Mythological Re-imaginings
28 books — 26 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
Best Bildungsroman book
364 books — 324 voters
Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. SmithImagining the Kingdom by James K.A. SmithThe Hidden and the Manifest by David Bentley HartA Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays by David Bentley HartThe Divided Soul by Clifford Williams
The Christian Intellect
1,275 books — 840 voters

God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga
Theodicy
28 books — 12 voters
Mist by Miguel de UnamunoHeart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph ConradThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Books that make you think.
1,117 books — 1,061 voters

The Iliad by Homer
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
627 books — 2,758 voters

My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerThe Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail TalHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy SilmanTal-Botvinnik, 1960 by Mikhail TalZurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Ionovich Bronstein
Best Chess Books
298 books — 126 voters
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzNew and Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz
Best Polish Literature
104 books — 104 voters

Roots Of Western Culture by Herman Dooyeweerd
Top 100 Christian Library
165 books — 51 voters
The Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochFinnegans Wake by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,043 voters

Mist by Miguel de Unamuno
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,728 voters
The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter HandkeThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Books on Loneliness
514 books — 496 voters

Resurrection from the Underground by René Girard
Dostoevskiana
70 books — 38 voters