Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kerry (15 Lists)



A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLife Unfolding by Jamie A. DaviesJohn Adams by David McCullough
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,953 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirReady Player One by Ernest ClineMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
What we've read so far in...2015
9,715 books — 2,063 voters

Guilty by Ann CoulterLet Freedom Ring by Sean HannityScientology by L. Ron HubbardI Want to Tell You by O.J. SimpsonThe Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,873 voters
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeChildhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Golden Age & New Wave SF
270 books — 207 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDune by Frank HerbertThe Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Intro to Science Fiction for Young Readers
1,388 books — 1,636 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldYour Inner Fish by Neil ShubinGenome by Matt Ridley
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters

The Warden by Anthony TrollopeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Best Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Novels
139 books — 103 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott CardThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,669 voters

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardUlysses by James JoyceThe Professor's House by Willa Cather
Best Books Ever
76,167 books — 283,197 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneDune by Frank HerbertThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,709 books — 11,306 voters

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsO Pioneers! by Willa CatherRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Best Westerns
1,376 books — 1,501 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Diversity of Life by Edward O. WilsonThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenNever Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Best Environmental Books
1,072 books — 1,201 voters

Bear Attacks by Stephen Herrero
Best Bear Books
183 books — 81 voters
Walking by Henry David ThoreauWhy Big Fierce Animals Are Rare by Paul ColinvauxA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldNature's Economy by Donald WorsterAnimals Without Backbones by Ralph Buchsbaum
Best Nature Books
1,155 books — 778 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,546 books — 120,104 voters