Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Charlotte Rayder (8 Lists)



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëHamlet by William ShakespeareFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
625 books — 2,753 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonNumber the Stars by Lois LowryShiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Most Deserving Newbery
114 books — 2,999 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLolita by Vladimir NabokovUlysses by James Joyce
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,315 books — 10,109 voters
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,271 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyEast of Eden by John SteinbeckWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,895 voters
As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,500 voters