Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jgcapizzi (8 Lists)



Finding Me by Viola DavisEducated by Tara WestoverThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
52 Book Club 2024: #43 About Finding Identity
259 books — 158 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
7,405 books — 25,585 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,817 books — 6,347 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahSmall Great Things by Jodi PicoultBritt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik BackmanThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
511 books — 1,999 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettWater for Elephants by Sara GruenAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,110 books — 1,144 voters
Beartown by Fredrik BackmanThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Best Books of 2017
1,737 books — 3,084 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Best Inspirational Books
661 books — 842 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction 2015
397 books — 2,091 voters