Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ben (10 Lists)



The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellCloud Atlas by David MitchellWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Damned Utd by David Peace
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
643 books — 278 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Skin by Curzio Malaparte
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfLolita by Vladimir NabokovUlysses by James JoyceThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaUnderworld by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,790 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
World War II Fiction
1,292 books — 2,017 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttTheft by Peter CareyThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
Art Fraud and Theft
217 books — 140 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoTime's Arrow by Martin AmisThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,418 books — 2,342 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
145 books — 133 voters