Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by PH (11 Lists)



Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair HuffakerLittle Big Man by Thomas BergerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckButcher's Crossing by John Williams
Best Westerns
1,375 books — 1,500 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellWild Swans by Jung Chang
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,814 books — 6,344 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert FiskThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,986 books — 1,279 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettShōgun by James ClavellThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Historical Fiction
7,392 books — 25,577 voters
The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
Best Trojan War Retellings
93 books — 133 voters

Gates of Fire by Steven PressfieldCreation by Gore VidalGlory and the Lightning by Taylor CaldwellThe Song of Troy by Colleen McCulloughClytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Historical Fiction: Ancient Greece
144 books — 219 voters
Lamb by Christopher MooreThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fiction with Jesus as a Character
185 books — 167 voters

Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-DixonMoulin Rouge by Pierre la MureSacred & Profane by David WeissThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneLust for Life by Irving Stone
Best Biographies and Memoirs About Artists
88 books — 42 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters

Quo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczJulian by Gore VidalThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughThe Grass Crown by Colleen McCulloughAugustus by John Williams
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters