Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Grant Earnest (10 Lists)



Baltasar and Blimunda by José SaramagoCapitães da areia by Jorge AmadoThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoGabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge Amado
Best Literature in Portuguese
476 books — 488 voters
Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
Best Portuguese 20th Century books
45 books — 20 voters

Bureaucracy by James Q. WilsonGhost Wars by Steve CollWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPolitical Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
FSO Reading List
119 books — 59 voters
Boss by Mike Royko
Chicago in history and fiction (fiction and nonfiction)
255 books — 82 voters

Boss by Mike RoykoThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Books Set in Chicago
599 books — 329 voters
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Best Bildungsroman book
365 books — 324 voters

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Great Fiction for the Intellectual Crowd
72 books — 18 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
466 books — 1,588 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,090 voters