Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Raine (13 Lists)



The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,757 books — 120,811 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Learn About History
459 books — 186 voters

All Clear by Connie WillisStartide Rising by David BrinBlackout by Connie WillisRingworld by Larry NivenThe City & the City by China Miéville
Hugo Award for Best Novel
73 books — 151 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Powell's Indiespensable
92 books — 156 voters

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellSphere by Michael Crichton
Best SF Books that weren't Nominated for Hugo or Nebula
168 books — 291 voters

Brightness Reef by David Brin
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,077 books — 2,183 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroWorld War Z by Max BrooksDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,024 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Classical Fiction
71 books — 66 voters
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Modern Interpretations of Ancient Myths
316 books — 341 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,336 books — 5,849 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
What To Read Next
20,516 books — 24,383 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Stand by Stephen KingDune by Frank HerbertFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,792 voters