Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Justin (27 Lists)



The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Biographies
1,660 books — 2,941 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorDistant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters
The Peregrine by J.A. BakerThus Were Their Faces by Silvina OcampoFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Rider on the White Horse by Theodor StormThe Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Weirdest Books Ever
1,193 books — 1,184 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 262 voters

Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
184 books — 215 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
92 books — 406 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,239 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreBone by Jeff Smith
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,766 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,287 voters
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,063 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Novels
102 books — 111 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.3 and Above
3,128 books — 477 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous
The Best Books You Will Never Read... EVER
102 books — 44 voters
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Best Plays Ever
853 books — 1,129 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Bildungsroman book
365 books — 324 voters
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,001 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,472 books — 119,861 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerUlysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,603 books — 13,133 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Books with short chapters
141 books — 77 voters