Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lori (14 Lists)



The Giver by Lois LowryThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantChocolat by Joanne Harris
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,213 books — 5,215 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Best Books on the Gospel
162 books — 112 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Most Rated Books by Year of the 20th Century
100 books — 723 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Giver by Lois LowryUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best for Book Clubs
14,557 books — 18,415 voters
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters

The Holy Longing by Ronald RolheiserThe Bible Tells Me So by Peter EnnsJesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre
Best Spiritual Books
1,499 books — 1,338 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryYear of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Best Historical Fiction
7,393 books — 25,577 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinLord of the Flies by William GoldingOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books Ever
76,086 books — 282,737 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,485 books — 119,947 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,228 books — 68,168 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Young Adult Books
13,124 books — 80,171 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,686 books — 14,161 voters