Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tedwards (44 Lists)



The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Weimar Era Arts & Culture (fiction and nonfiction)
133 books — 57 voters
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Non-Fiction that reads like fiction
396 books — 258 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyChildhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters

SPQR by Mary Beard
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
376 books — 281 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf
353 books — 108 voters
American Pastoral by Philip RothThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
40 books — 92 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Chernobyl
41 books — 29 voters
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick TurseKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Best Anti-Imperialist Books
101 books — 53 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
RF Schiller's Best Novels of All-Time
56 books — 5 voters
American Pastoral by Philip RothThe Plot Against America by Philip RothPortnoy's Complaint by Philip RothPatrimony by Philip RothGoodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth
Favourite Philip Roth books
5 books — 1 voter

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,375 books — 10,139 voters
Patrimony by Philip RothThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Ghost Writer by Philip RothPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Best Philip Roth Books
32 books — 104 voters

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,143 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters

American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,677 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,507 voters

Hitch 22 by Christopher HitchensArguably by Christopher HitchensLolita by Vladimir NabokovMoney by Martin Amis
You don't know Christopher Hitchens until you've read
127 books — 105 voters
Money by Martin AmisExperience by Martin AmisVisiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions by Martin Amis
Best of Martin Amis
29 books — 8 voters

Speak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Works of Vladimir Nabokov
31 books — 28 voters
Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens
Jeffersonian Books (fiction and nonfiction)
81 books — 30 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareAs You Like It by William Shakespeare
The Best Shakespeare Plays
41 books — 171 voters
Lyrical Ballads by William WordsworthThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
114 books — 40 voters

Empire by Niall Ferguson
Favourite History books
22 books — 7 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,239 voters


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