Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Desmond (15 Lists)



The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonMy Life by Fidel Castro
Socialist Classics
420 books — 326 voters
Forgotten Continent by Michael ReidBorn in Blood and Fire by John Charles ChasteenCuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan C. BrownThe Americas by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoCentral America by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.
Intro to Latin America
120 books — 8 voters

The Civil War by Shelby FooteAlexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best History Books
3,726 books — 3,764 voters
Civil War by Shelby FooteThe Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce Levine
Civil War Essentials
116 books — 23 voters

Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Best American Historical Biographies of All Time
246 books — 132 voters
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,043 voters

The Civil War, Vol. 2 by Shelby FooteThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,877 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownAlexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowThe Civil War by Shelby Foote
Best American History Books
2,136 books — 2,503 voters
Batman by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,769 voters

Batman by Frank Miller
Best of Batman
624 books — 934 voters
Dreams from My Father by Barack ObamaGrant by Ron Chernow
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
467 books — 524 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,139 voters
Stokely by Peniel E. JosephRevolutionary Suicide by Huey P. NewtonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Books That Every African American Should Read (Huffington Post List)
181 books — 210 voters

The Plantagenets by Dan JonesThe Wars of the Roses by Dan JonesSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Middle Ages Books
1,225 books — 1,709 voters