Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ricky McMaster (10 Lists)



Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Complete Shakespeare
51 books — 31 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLanark by Alasdair GrayVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time
106 books — 114 voters

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell HuffPython for Data Analysis by Wes McKinneyThe Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy BurkovHands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tenso... by Aurélien GéronCompeting on Analytics by Thomas H. Davenport
Data Science - Learning About Data
133 books — 121 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMiddlemarch by George Eliot
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
561 books — 545 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyA Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 540 voters

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 701 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Best of Tolstoy
31 books — 444 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Best History Books
3,696 books — 3,730 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLanark by Alasdair GrayMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,459 books — 119,772 voters