Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Anne (32 Lists)



Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellEast of Eden by John SteinbeckA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithMere Christianity by C.S. LewisLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
Till We Have Faces by C.S. LewisFairy Tale by Stephen King
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,797 books — 9,159 voters

Rolling Thunder by Mark Berent
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Norse Mythology
293 books — 410 voters

A Book of Walks by Bruce Bochy
Walk with Me: A Literature of Walking
142 books — 71 voters
Choice Theory by William Glasser
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,332 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanDead Wake by Erik LarsonThe Slight Edge by Jeff OlsonThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
5,970 books — 4,196 voters
War and Remembrance by Herman WoukThe Winds of War by Herman WoukMission to Paris by Alan FurstAbove Suspicion by Helen MacInnesFlowers from Berlin by Noel Hynd
WWII Historic Fiction
1,456 books — 1,530 voters

Flowers from Berlin by Noel HyndArmageddon by Leon Uris
Berlin
316 books — 187 voters
The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky
What we've read so far in 2016
7,972 books — 976 voters

When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill ManningThe Novel Cure by Ella BerthoudMy Life with Bob by Pamela PaulThe Books That Changed My Life by Bethanne PatrickThe Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters
Big Magic by Elizabeth GilbertNapoleon's Pyramids by William DietrichEat It Later by Michael AlvearMake It Stick by Peter C. BrownLost Horizon by James Hilton
What we've read so far in...2015
9,715 books — 2,063 voters

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerLost Horizon by James Hilton
Wanderlust
1,058 books — 1,150 voters
Eat It Later by Michael AlvearThe Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigalHabit Stacking by S.J. ScottThe Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
The Self Help Master List!
495 books — 359 voters

When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
Books Recommending Books
149 books — 44 voters
The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord
Best American History Books
2,122 books — 2,492 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
Best American Civil War Books
1,006 books — 979 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
509 books — 391 voters

Exodus by Leon UrisMila 18 by Leon Uris
Best Holocaust Novels
188 books — 262 voters
The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Crystal Cave by Mary StewartThe Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. BarronThe Hollow Hills by Mary StewartThe Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
The Arthurian Legend Retold
455 books — 747 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe Passage by Justin CroninMara and Dann by Doris Lessing
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,245 books — 3,415 voters
Bonhoeffer by Eric MetaxasMere Christianity by C.S. LewisBack to Virtue by Peter KreeftThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Recommended Books (Besides the Bible) Written by Christian Authors
4,312 books — 3,514 voters

The Final Storm by Jeff ShaaraExodus by Leon UrisThe Katyn Order by Douglas W. JacobsonFlowers from Berlin by Noel HyndMunich by Robert Harris
World War II Fiction
1,384 books — 2,019 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Stand by Stephen KingDracula by Bram StokerThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,700 books — 11,292 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs
Best Historical Fiction
7,398 books — 25,583 voters
The Passage by Justin CroninGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,432 books — 14,660 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe March by E.L. Doctorow
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,647 books — 3,589 voters
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,844 books — 10,502 voters

Right Turns by Michael Medved
Best Conservative Books
525 books — 320 voters
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Best Books of 2010
1,574 books — 2,471 voters


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