Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bryan (23 Lists)



The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
Historical Fiction Set In Australia
111 books — 12 voters
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard FlanaganMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Very Best Historical Fiction
178 books — 60 voters

A Touch of Death by Charles Williams
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
706 books — 881 voters
A Day of Fire by Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction 2014
383 books — 1,978 voters

The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie
Best Frontier Literature
109 books — 34 voters
Human Acts by Han Kang
Amazon 2017 Top 100 (Print) Books
100 books — 52 voters

Centennial by James A. Michener
Best Westerns
1,383 books — 1,511 voters
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3 2006
105 books — 38 voters

In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
Police Procedurals at the Boston Athenaeum (fiction)
50 books — 2 voters
Secondhand Smoke by Lauren Gilley
Books Set in Tennessee
489 books — 128 voters

The Reluctant Killer by Robert Durrant
Books with a Terrorism theme
141 books — 97 voters
Car by Harry Crews
Regional Grit Lit
120 books — 87 voters

The Nightingale by Kristin HannahShadowcaster by Cinda Williams Chima
Your Top 5 Reads in 2017
749 books — 360 voters
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 204 voters

The Littlest Hero by Dan Vanderburg
The Best in Historical Fiction: War & Justice on the American Frontier
57 books — 11 voters
Glory Over Everything by Kathleen GrissomDaredevils by Shawn Vestal
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
512 books — 1,998 voters

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis LehaneGringos by Charles Portis
The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime
142 books — 68 voters
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
What Nick Hornby Should Read after Dennis Lehane's "Mystic River"
18 books — 11 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Foreign Lands
2,359 books — 2,195 voters
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,040 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books Ever
76,691 books — 285,180 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
CRIME WRITERS WHO DESERVE MORE ATTENTION
650 books — 396 voters

Headlock by Burl Barer
Crime Fiction That Really Rules
56 books — 61 voters