Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Katie (11 Lists)



Summa Theologica by Thomas AquinasTeachings of Rumi (The Masnavi) by JalalThe Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de LorrisMemoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest o... by Geoffroi de Villehardouin
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioRevelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 541 voters
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Speculative Fiction Classics (pre-1980) by Female Authors
170 books — 97 voters

The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Giver by Lois LowryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,556 voters
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Wife of Bath by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Heptameron by Marguerite de NavarreThe Lais of Marie de France by Marie de FranceThe Letters of Abélard and Héloïse by Pierre Abélard
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
279 books — 134 voters

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Life of Christina of Markyate by C.H. TalbotThe Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
Herstory
588 books — 96 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 989 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoBeowulf by UnknownSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymous
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,136 voters