Big Books of 2026

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



The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist
13 books — 37 voters
The Illustrated Child by Polly CrosbyThe Miniaturist by Jessie BurtonThe Muse by Jessie Burton
Curtis Brown Creative Alumni List
50 books — 5 voters

Home by Amanda Berriman
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 236 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksSmall Island by Andrea LevyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best Time and Place Books
101 books — 12 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantGrace Williams Says It Loud by Emma HendersonThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
TBC favourite books
583 books — 461 voters
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiNine Parts of Desire by Geraldine BrooksStolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Best Middle East Nonfiction
536 books — 374 voters

A Half-forgotten Song by Katherine Webb
Historical Fiction 2012 Releases - Which books are you looking forward to the most?
136 books — 1,090 voters
Words in the Dust by Trent ReedyBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Newbery 2012
145 books — 654 voters

The Translator by Daoud HariThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaLittle Princes by Conor GrennanThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonPrincess by Jean Sasson
Powerful International Non-Fiction
295 books — 318 voters
Jamilia by Chingiz AitmatovSwallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Books Set in the -stan Countries
333 books — 172 voters

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood AliA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Muslim Girls on the Cover
268 books — 141 voters
Gap Creek by Robert MorganA Million Little Pieces by James FreyShe’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Oprah's Book Club Picks
124 books — 2,203 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkWhen Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Well-Written Holocaust Books
890 books — 2,881 voters