Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by 3535 (16 Lists)



Life by Georges PerecIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
100 books — 101 voters
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Japanese Fiction
410 books — 330 voters

Celestial Navigation by Anne TylerHotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hotels, Motels, Inns, B'n'Bs and Guesthouses
444 books — 187 voters
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Art & Artists in Fiction
930 books — 1,105 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneLife by Georges PerecThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,999 voters
Pyrrhus by Mark MerlisAmerican Studies by Mark MerlisMemories of the Ford Administration by John UpdikeHandsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt by Frank RonanWrong by Dennis Cooper
Nudes
580 books — 79 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA History of Reading by Alberto ManguelThe Emigrants by W.G. SebaldHis Arms Are Full of Broken Things by P.B. ParrisThe Author Of Himself by Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Bifocals!
302 books — 52 voters
The Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter GayThe Enlightenment, Volume 2 by Peter GayRadical Enlightenment by Jonathan I. IsraelEnlightenment Contested by Jonathan I. IsraelEnlightenment by Roy Porter
The Enlightenment and its Impact
265 books — 87 voters

The Original of Laura by Vladimir NabokovSummertime by J.M. CoetzeeNoah's Compass by Anne Tyler
Eagerly Anticipated Books Remainder of 2009 and 2010
490 books — 1,415 voters
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischThe Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia OzickThe Story of the Night by Colm TóibínOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Great Books with BLACK Covers
2,099 books — 749 voters

Paradise by Toni MorrisonPossession by A.S. Byatt
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 170 voters
Hadewijch by HadewijchSinglewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 by Judith M. BennettA History of Women in the West. Vol 3. Renaissance and the En... by DavisA History of Women by Georges DubyBecoming Visible by Renate Bridenthal
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
279 books — 134 voters

Het boek van violet en dood by Gerard ReveMurther and Walking Spirits by Robertson DaviesThe Night Listener by Armistead MaupinEen circusjongen by Gerard RevePurple Cow by Seth Godin
The Color Purple
1,558 books — 409 voters
Persuasion by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Your Favourite Jane Austen Novel
7 books — 61 voters

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
More Jane for the Austen Purist
149 books — 138 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters