Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Oscar (23 Lists)



The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,024 voters
The Complete Works by William ShakespeareBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,112 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,792 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
Your Top 5 Reads in 2016
657 books — 234 voters

First Light by Geoffrey WellumThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleBattle Order 204 by Christobel MattingleyLast of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy CorbinThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Aviation Books
396 books — 180 voters
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 233 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleHistory by Elsa MoranteTwo Women by Alberto MoraviaEarly One Morning by Virginia Baily
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA British Boy in Fascist Italy by Peter Ghiringhelli
World War 2 books
389 books — 211 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMiddlemarch by George EliotTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - unabridged
233 books — 42 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
WWII Historic Fiction
1,461 books — 1,541 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
382 books — 422 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,673 books — 3,604 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyShakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Best Books for Smart People
706 books — 144 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,878 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
World War II Fiction
1,391 books — 2,030 voters
The Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesRomola by George EliotThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Books Set in Florence
102 books — 83 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttUs by David NichollsIn the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider RahmanThe Children Act by Ian McEwan
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
165 books — 695 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Book Group Worthy Titles for 2014
243 books — 1,193 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,369 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,439 books — 2,357 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterRomola by George Eliot
Italy
981 books — 499 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Aspern Papers by Henry JamesA British Boy in Fascist Italy by Peter Ghiringhelli
Reading Italy
444 books — 237 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Waves by Virginia WoolfCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyHamlet, Prince of Denmark by A.J. Hartley
Best Books Ever
76,715 books — 285,132 voters