Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lisa Smoot (17 Lists)



Hyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Paying Guests by Sarah WatersThe Little Friend by Donna TarttGulp by Mary Roach
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,610 books — 1,251 voters
Slammerkin by Emma DonoghueThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazPromise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahonThe Shining Girls by Lauren BeukesNOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Your Top 5 Reads in 2013
1,301 books — 1,093 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Polysyllabic Spree by Nick HornbyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books about Books
1,383 books — 1,518 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteGone Girl by Gillian FlynnDark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,286 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,204 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Unhappy Marriages
484 books — 288 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Beauty Myth by Naomi WolfFull Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
Best Feminist Books
2,511 books — 3,515 voters
Dewey by Vicki MyronCats for Dummies by Gina SpadaforiHomer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Cat Lovers List
1,234 books — 536 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,213 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Giver by Lois Lowry
YA Dystopia Novels
1,789 books — 11,244 voters

Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur
Best Books About Animals
1,837 books — 1,852 voters
Veganomicon by Isa Chandra MoskowitzVegan Cupcakes Take Over the World by Isa Chandra MoskowitzVegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra MoskowitzAppetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz500 Vegan Recipes by Joni Marie Newman
Best Vegan Cookbooks
294 books — 390 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Young Adult Books
13,123 books — 80,172 voters
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran FoerFast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Food Politics
202 books — 74 voters

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Books for Vegans, Vegetarians, and those interested in Animal Rights
483 books — 529 voters
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Memoirs of Madness
294 books — 375 voters

Fascinating Womanhood by Helen B. AndelinWinning the Future by Newt GingrichSugar and Spice by Lauren ConradUnplanned by Abby JohnsonGodless by Ann Coulter
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,637 books — 5,994 voters