Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hannah (21 Lists)



The Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,686 books — 14,160 voters
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskeyCaps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Best Children's Books
5,309 books — 6,705 voters

Darkfever by Karen Marie MoningTouch the Dark by Karen ChanceRosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuireSkinwalker by Faith HunterUnholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,404 books — 12,551 voters
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Picture Books of the 2000s
158 books — 20 voters

Winter Lullaby by Dianne White
Picture Books of the 2020s
101 books — 19 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
419 books — 656 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderRamona the Pest by Beverly ClearyPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Must-Have Series for Children Ages 6 to 12
876 books — 1,306 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George EliotVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,873 voters
Your Inner Fish by Neil ShubinThe Extended Phenotype by Richard DawkinsDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. DennettThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters

The Difference Engine by William Gibson
Best Steampunk Books
1,245 books — 4,096 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Everyone's Read It But Me
800 books — 4,325 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen RussellTiassa by Steven BrustThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,240 books — 6,629 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,123 books — 80,170 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni Morrison
What To Read Next
20,186 books — 24,114 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Neuromancer by William GibsonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,788 voters

Abiku by Debo KotunThe Squatter and the Don by Maria Amparo;Sanchez Ruiz D...The Princess Who Always Ran Away by Maryke Reesink
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
537 books — 361 voters
Milk by Anne MendelsonThe Code Book by Simon SinghA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,213 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,135 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsSpook Country by William Gibson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerBeloved by Toni MorrisonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Books Ever
76,058 books — 282,603 voters