Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tim Barr (8 Lists)



Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiBlindness by José SaramagoDeath with Interruptions by José SaramagoThe Final Diary by Ned Rorem
Magical Realism
439 books — 639 voters
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat HanhCrooked Little Vein by Warren EllisArgall by William T. VollmannImperial by William T. VollmannEurope Central by William T. Vollmann
Must Read Before You Die
555 books — 183 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWorld War Z by Max BrooksI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,245 books — 3,413 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Illuminated Novels
47 books — 33 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,374 books — 14,630 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoFear and Loathing by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,921 voters

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTo Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José FarmerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,085 books — 282,708 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,719 voters