Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mag (30 Lists)



Cloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellGhostwritten by David Mitchell
David Mitchell
11 books — 107 voters
Natasha and Other Stories by David BezmozgisThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent LamThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeSnow in May by Kseniya Melnik
Good short fiction
657 books — 392 voters

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2014 Tournament of Books Finalists
17 books — 130 voters
Korea by Simon WinchesterImperium by Ryszard Kapuściński
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Dramatic Nonfiction
40 books — 23 voters
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahWhat Is the What by Dave Eggers
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176 books — 70 voters

The Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 818 voters
Collapse by Jared Diamond1491 by Charles C. MannThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondCatching Fire by Richard W. Wrangham
Popular Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
480 books — 172 voters

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 268 voters
The Tiger by John VaillantTravels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2010
33 books — 62 voters

What Is the What by Dave EggersA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiImperium by Ryszard KapuścińskiShah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
Foreign Lands
2,348 books — 2,192 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiIn Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō TanizakiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Literature
310 books — 388 voters

Lost in Translation by Eva HoffmanLord Jim by Joseph Conrad
BOOKS WRITTEN IN A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE
61 books — 18 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMiddlemarch by George EliotPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,872 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,951 voters
The Riders by Tim Winton
Riders Up!
399 books — 42 voters

Room by Emma DonoghueThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellHitch 22 by Christopher HitchensMurder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green
Best Books of 2010
1,574 books — 2,471 voters
Room by Emma DonoghueThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Not the Booker Prize 2010
86 books — 179 voters

Climbing High by Lene GammelgaardThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Mountains
742 books — 115 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThrough Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenBarney's Version by Mordecai RichlerClara Callan by Richard B. WrightBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners
27 books — 73 voters

The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSouth by Ernest ShackletonInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Extreme Classics: National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
101 books — 263 voters
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
A Buddhist Reading List
906 books — 1,180 voters

Zeitoun by Dave EggersThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Children's Book by A.S. ByattThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodParrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Best Books of 2009
1,769 books — 6,935 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The saddest book I have read so far
107 books — 92 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
25 books — 839 voters
My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukBirds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
162 books — 208 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
My Favorite Books of the New Millenium
17 books — 17 voters
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
My Country, the Enemy
393 books — 341 voters