Big Books of 2026

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWhite Oleander by Janet Fitch
Lyric Prose
87 books — 43 voters
Hers to Command by Patricia A. Knight
Paranormal MMF Menage
222 books — 343 voters

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Witches
560 books — 223 voters
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Best of the Salem Witch Trials (fiction and nonfiction)
97 books — 196 voters

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Best Books With Witches
1,778 books — 2,404 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books About Librarians
453 books — 574 voters

Far from You by Lisa Schroeder
Losing Someone - Grief-themed Books in Young Adult Fiction
132 books — 114 voters
Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,431 books — 14,656 voters

The House on the Strand by Daphne du MaurierTo Serve Them All My Days by R.F. DelderfieldWomen in Love by D.H. LawrenceCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsThe Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 212 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
1,666 books — 5,992 voters

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnA Fine and Private Place by Peter S. BeagleThe Canterville Ghost by Oscar WildeWhat's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria LaurieTime Windows by Kathryn Reiss
Favorite Ghost Stories
443 books — 313 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanA Certain Slant of Light by Laura WhitcombGeneration Dead by Daniel WatersThe Everafter by Amy Huntley
YA Post-Death Novels
191 books — 388 voters

Shadowland by Jenny CarrollThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsOnce Dead, Twice Shy by Kim HarrisonGrave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Seeing Dead People
80 books — 59 voters
Murder is Binding by Lorna BarrettWhat's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria LaurieThe Trouble With Magic by Madelyn AltThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithSecondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell
Best Cozy Mystery Series
2,532 books — 2,677 voters

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Best Gripping Books
579 books — 365 voters
Relic by Douglas Preston
Thrillers
4,605 books — 5,596 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell
Martial Arts Fiction
273 books — 193 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
South Asian Fiction by Women
183 books — 163 voters

V for Vendetta by Alan MooreWatchmen by Alan Moore
Best Graphic Novels and Comic Books
993 books — 599 voters
The Queen's Necklace by Frances Mossiker
Marie-Antoinette Non-Fiction
31 books — 26 voters

Vampyres by Christopher FraylingVampires and Vampirism by Dudley Wright
Vampire Non-Fiction
63 books — 25 voters
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best American History Books
2,121 books — 2,491 voters

Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenBath Tangle by Georgette HeyerDeath of a Colonial by Bruce Alexander
Books set in Bath
28 books — 31 voters
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
Best Books on the Renaissance
187 books — 104 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Lure of the Vampire by Milly Williamson
Myth and Fantasy Studies
98 books — 59 voters

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiI Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
Best Middle East Nonfiction
534 books — 373 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonHomicide by David Simon
Best True Crime
1,345 books — 1,886 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
608 books — 1,627 voters


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