Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kim (6 Lists)



When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysTrapped by Michael Northrop
2011 YA Contemporaries
171 books — 598 voters
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie RyanThis is Not a Test by Courtney SummersThe Reapers are the Angels by Alden BellThe Enemy by Charlie HigsonThe Dead by Charlie Higson
Zombie Books (the next big thing after Vampires)
449 books — 304 voters

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie RyanThis is Not a Test by Courtney SummersThe Walking Dead, Book One by Robert KirkmanThe Enemy by Charlie HigsonThe Dead by Charlie Higson
Zombies!
1,663 books — 4,318 voters
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
12,266 books — 7,850 voters

Suffer the Children by John SaulThe Stand by Stephen KingSwan Song by Robert McCammonThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanThe Shining by Stephen King
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,368 books — 1,977 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryStargirl by Jerry SpinelliThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Best Young Adult Books
13,122 books — 80,170 voters