Big Books of 2026

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



The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
#ReadPOC: List of Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
348 books — 90 voters
Aliens & Anorexia by Chris KrausLa Honte by Annie ErnauxI Love Dick by Chris KrausTorpor by Chris KrausChelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
Autofiction
76 books — 26 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiGoodbye Tsugumi by Banana YoshimotoKitchen by Banana YoshimotoHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Flavorwire's Contemporary Japanese Writers You Should Know
48 books — 90 voters
The Bullet and the Ballot Box by Aditya Adhikari
Nepal
116 books — 78 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichZinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich
Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation
239 books — 176 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Economist - Books of the Year 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
46 books — 43 voters

Autobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Stranger by Albert CamusTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Flavorwire's 50 Novels Guaranteed to Make you a Better Person
50 books — 17 voters
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Books on North Korea
137 books — 511 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 893 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,248 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,219 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
African Fiction
600 books — 427 voters

Autobiography of Red by Anne CarsonRed Doc> by Anne CarsonHelen in Egypt by H.D.
Novels in Verse
426 books — 755 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,892 voters