Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lavinia (9 Lists)



Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Family history and genealogy memoirs
99 books — 45 voters
Girl at War by Sara Nović
Books about the Bosnian Genocide
36 books — 11 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddGirl at War by Sara NovićPortrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga
Your Top 5 Reads in 2015
1,519 books — 876 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,378 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Godfather by Mario PuzoSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenBridget Jones by Helen FieldingThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,102 voters
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverMe Before You by Jojo MoyesWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleEverything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Over 35 List: Books You Most Want to Read in 2015
1,107 books — 1,721 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Huh? I Thought That Book Would Be Better Than It Was
882 books — 750 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
Best Books 1925
61 books — 60 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters