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
177 books — 59 voters

A Touch of Death by Charles Williams
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 878 voters
A Day of Fire by Kate Quinn
Historical Fiction 2014
376 books — 1,970 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
1,374 books — 1,499 voters
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3 2006
104 books — 37 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
140 books — 96 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
751 books — 361 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
511 books — 2,000 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
2,347 books — 2,191 voters
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books Ever
76,027 books — 282,286 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
CRIME WRITERS WHO DESERVE MORE ATTENTION
648 books — 390 voters

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