Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sam Cason (14 Lists)



Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
Clockpunk
28 books — 5 voters
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Books Neil Gaiman Recommends
104 books — 37 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesCatch-22 by Joseph HellerInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoWatchmen by Alan Moore
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoLost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisMere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Great Divorce by C.S. LewisThe Pilgrim's Progress by John BunyanParadise Lost by John Milton
The Christian Intellect
1,271 books — 836 voters
Universe of the Mind by Yuri M. Lotman
Abstruse Philosophy [excluding: Plato, Nietzsche, Aristotle, science, history, and religion ]
56 books — 30 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksI Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsMetaphors We Live By by George LakoffComplexity by Melanie Mitchell
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 491 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorLost in the Funhouse by John BarthIn Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
After DFW's "Eclectic/Obscure Fictions for Writers" Syllabus
79 books — 47 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCatch-22 by Joseph HellerFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesWatchmen by Alan Moore
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. DickMetamagical Themas by Douglas R. HofstadterGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterNeuromancer by William Gibson
My post-graduation reading list
31 books — 16 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
Daytripper by Fábio Moon
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,013 voters