Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sue (6 Lists)



Tooth and Nail by Ian RankinCold Granite by Stuart MacBrideGallows View by Peter RobinsonMissing, Presumed by Susie SteinerTurnstone by Graham Hurley
British Police Procedural (fiction)
76 books — 28 voters
High Wages by Dorothy WhippleThey Were Sisters by Dorothy WhippleGood Evening, Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-DownesGreenbanks by Dorothy WhippleSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
Best Persephone Books
150 books — 165 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best World War Two Novels
267 books — 108 voters
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris CleaveThe Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
329 books — 700 voters

The Commitments by Roddy DoylePaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy DoyleThe Snapper by Roddy DoyleThe Van by Roddy DoyleThe Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Best Irish Books
686 books — 603 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Dress Lodger by Sheri HolmanThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Best neo-victorian novels
117 books — 206 voters