Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rodney (12 Lists)



Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySuttree by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond CarverWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovTales of Ordinary Madness by Charles BukowskiThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Collections of Short Stories
2,894 books — 2,039 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,288 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingScreenplay by Syd FieldSave the Cat by Blake SnyderScreenwriting Tricks For Authors by Alexandra SokoloffThe Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
Best Books on Writing
798 books — 1,327 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverWhite Noise by Don DeLilloLess Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond CarverRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles BukowskiThe Lorax by Dr. SeussGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,777 voters

Ask the Dust by John FanteThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,256 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOn the Road by Jack KerouacInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonLolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,508 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesFight Club by Chuck PalahniukAsk the Dust by John FanteWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters