Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Caleb (25 Lists)



The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,282 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Best Literature in Portuguese
471 books — 487 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
From Nigeria With Love: Books by Nigerian Authors
226 books — 151 voters
Piedra de Sol = Sunstone by Octavio PazPedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Mexican Literature
391 books — 199 voters

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Books by Haitian Authors
17 books — 8 voters
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Chilean Literature
274 books — 125 voters

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,146 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian literature
39 books — 5 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
76,691 books — 285,171 voters
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,383 books — 1,511 voters

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriExhalation by Ted Chiang
Best Short Stories of All Time
610 books — 380 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni MorrisonBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

Perelandra by C.S. LewisThe Giver by Lois LowryExhalation by Ted ChiangA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Science Fiction
3,676 books — 7,011 voters
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Best Poetry Books
2,990 books — 2,439 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahA Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
Funniest Books Ever
272 books — 197 voters
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Best Plays Ever
854 books — 1,129 voters

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
Worst Book You've Ever Read
322 books — 97 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Red Pony by John SteinbeckThe Wild Things by Dave Eggers
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,519 books — 262 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'EngleThe World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny ChoiA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
Books With Pretty Titles
178 books — 24 voters
Either/Or by Søren KierkegaardGravity and Grace by Simone WeilThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,419 voters

Born a Crime by Trevor NoahInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,861 books — 6,383 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Novels with the Best Opening Lines
38 books — 17 voters

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Books With the Best First Chapter
35 books — 10 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,839 books — 3,601 voters

The Unsettling of America by Wendell BerryBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Best Environmental Books
1,075 books — 1,203 voters