Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Constance Cappel (13 Lists)



The Crook Factory by Dan SimmonsPapa and Fidel by Karl Alexander
Obsessed with Hemingway
48 books — 15 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNight by Elie WieselLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,530 books — 119,997 voters

To Have and Have Not by Ernest HemingwayRichard III by William ShakespeareThe Trial by Franz KafkaUlysses by James JoyceVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge pt 4
35 books — 16 voters
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best for Book Clubs
14,601 books — 18,436 voters

Dragon Day by Anson MontgomeryInto the Hollow Earth by Anson MontgomeryMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Best Young Adult Books
13,096 books — 80,178 voters
Path of the Masters by Julian P. JohnsonIn Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
What To Read Next
20,276 books — 24,149 voters

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,017 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Historical Fiction
7,397 books — 25,582 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,061 voters
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolSketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,875 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
76,103 books — 282,889 voters

The Overcoat by Nikolai GogolThe House of the Dead by Fyodor DostoevskyResurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters