Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ryan Eshleman-Robles (67 Lists)



The Ball is Round by David GoldblattTor! by Ulrich Hesse-LichtenbergerMorbo by Phil Ball
Best Football (Soccer) Books
513 books — 386 voters
My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,677 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 346 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDracula by Bram StokerThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 500 voters
The Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
466 books — 855 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceMy Ántonia by Willa CatherDubliners by James JoyceSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters
Forests by Robert Pogue HarrisonRestavec by Jean-Robert CadetA Force More Powerful by Peter Ackerman
REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings)
1,300 books — 202 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenA Death in the Family by James AgeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Rooting for the Bad Guy
683 books — 1,467 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukSnow by Orhan Pamuk
Best of Turkish Literature
492 books — 826 voters
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Best Historical Mystery
2,070 books — 4,531 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustCloud Atlas by David MitchellInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cloud Atlas by David MitchellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,990 voters

Speak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsLaughter is Sacred Space by Ted SwartzNight by Elie Wiesel
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,102 books — 1,950 voters
Symposium by PlatoThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Ending
8,035 books — 6,081 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukSnow by Orhan Pamuk
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
529 books — 1,888 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Time and Again by Jack Finney
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,957 books — 5,244 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,668 voters
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Top reads for sports fans
955 books — 769 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature
304 books — 399 voters

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićS. by Slavenka DrakulićZorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Balkans
279 books — 210 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskySnow by Orhan PamukThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolThe Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićPalace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
Non-American books that every American should read
695 books — 495 voters

Restavec by Jean-Robert CadetOriginal Wisdom by Robert Wolff
Books White People Need to Read
1,306 books — 1,560 voters
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriIgnorance by Milan KunderaMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,008 books — 1,447 voters

Restavec by Jean-Robert Cadet
The Caribbean 101
409 books — 121 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićHomesick by Eshkol NevoThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Place As Character
174 books — 34 voters
Snow by Orhan PamukMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of 2002
686 books — 242 voters


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