Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Marc Lamot (8 Lists)



The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldI'm Not Stiller by Max FrischFaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters
The Plague by Albert CamusLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustNausea by Jean-Paul SartreJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Best French Literature
873 books — 1,574 voters

Ulysses by James JoycePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienLord of the Flies by William GoldingMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,112 voters
Nooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansDe boeken der kleine zielen I en II by Louis CouperusMax Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliDe Zondvloed by Jeroen BrouwersGodenslaap by Erwin Mortier
The best Dutch literature
414 books — 387 voters

La Mésopotamie - De Gilgamesh à Artaban by Bertrand LafontBrotherhood of Kings by Amanda H. PodanyGilgamesh by Michael SchmidtIdea into Image by Erik HornungThe Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw
Best Books About Ancient History
456 books — 136 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanParadise Lost by John MiltonFour Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,990 books — 2,439 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannUlysses by James JoyceThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Best Books Ever
76,717 books — 285,163 voters
The Rise of the West by William H. McNeillThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul KennedyEurope by Norman DaviesPostwar by Tony JudtThe Human Web by John Robert McNeill
Best History Books
3,726 books — 3,764 voters