Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ralph (14 Lists)



The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,053 books — 9,893 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,920 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe World According to Garp by John IrvingMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Literary Fiction
1,548 books — 1,328 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,790 voters

Underworld by Don DeLilloBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
40 books — 92 voters
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning by Jonathan MahlerTime and Again by Jack FinneyMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemForever by Pete HamillExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,508 books — 1,217 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,664 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutGilead by Marilynne RobinsonExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
Writers who committed suicide
455 books — 285 voters
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 234 voters

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction
1,209 books — 1,256 voters
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,843 books — 10,496 voters

The Boys of Summer by Roger KahnSummer of '49 by David HalberstamBall Four by Jim BoutonPafko at the Wall by Don DeLilloThe Summer Game by Roger Angell
Best Baseball Books
749 books — 656 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books Ever
76,085 books — 282,706 voters