Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gary Mcgreal (10 Lists)



The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDune by Frank HerbertA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,780 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceShōgun by James ClavellFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoPerfume by Patrick SüskindA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,068 books — 971 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,873 voters
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books Ever
76,039 books — 282,475 voters

City of Bones by Cassandra ClareJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,026 books — 2,649 voters