Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Clive Campbell (10 Lists)



The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Republic by PlatoBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheThe Annals of Imperial Rome by TacitusThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,245 books — 4,415 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerThe Republic by PlatoAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Complete Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotThe Iliad by HomerParadise Lost by John MiltonMacbeth by William ShakespeareMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Books Ever
76,058 books — 282,603 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFaust, and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Pompous Books to Read in Public
307 books — 153 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradGerminal by Émile ZolaVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,873 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfSons and Lovers by D.H. LawrencePoint Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerOrlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Best of Epic Poetry
124 books — 202 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySons and Lovers by D.H. LawrenceMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Odyssey by Homer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,473 books — 119,877 voters
Candide by VoltaireWomen in Love by D.H. LawrenceParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,724 voters