Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by WestJerseyFields (17 Lists)



The Nicomachean Ethics by AristotleThe Upanishads by AnonymousDaodejing by Lao TzuParmenides of Elea by ParmenidesHeraclitus by Heraclitus
Metaphysical philosophy
70 books — 1 voter
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinMemoir Of The Life Of Richard Henry Lee And His Correspondenc... by Richard Henry LeeCollected Works of Roger Sherman by Roger ShermanHis Glassy Essence by Charles Sanders PeirceThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
American Philosophy
98 books — 1 voter

Das Kapital by Karl MarxThe Marx-Engels Reader by Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxSocialism by Friedrich EngelsChina's Socialist Economy by Xue Muqiao
Marxist Literature/Philosophy
89 books — 1 voter
Origen by OrigenConfessions by Augustine of HippoThe Apology by TertullianChristian Philosophy by Étienne GilsonPlato by Plato
Christian philosophy
9 books — 1 voter

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur SchopenhauerIn the Buddha's Words by Bhikkhu BodhiBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha by Bhikkhu BodhiCyrenaic Philosophers by Books LLC
Philosophical Pessimist Literature
29 books — 2 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCandide by VoltaireGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Best Picaresque Novels
127 books — 75 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George Orwell
Absurdist Fiction
313 books — 286 voters
Utopia by Thomas MoreThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,725 voters

1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Quality Dark Fiction
2,508 books — 3,226 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseNarcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Literary Romanticism
102 books — 59 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthySuttree by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Existentialist Novels
59 books — 31 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Cozy Literature
55 books — 1 voter

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. LovecraftThe Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Bleakest works of Literature
28 books — 2 voters
Song of Myself by Walt WhitmanThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanMusashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Upbeat Literature
29 books — 1 voter

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. LovecraftThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotTimequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George OrwellA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Apocalyptic/Postapocalyptic Literature
16 books — 1 voter
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters

The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
World's Greatest Epics
204 books — 134 voters