Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Octavia (13 Lists)



Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,531 books — 120,028 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Shack by William Paul YoungGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,411 books — 10,143 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Well-Written Holocaust Books
891 books — 2,885 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Multicultural General Fiction
588 books — 376 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteTales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Favorite books from my childhood
4,420 books — 7,427 voters
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,749 books — 25,989 voters

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Romance Books by Africans
40 books — 7 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerParable of the Talents by Octavia E. ButlerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFledgling by Octavia E. ButlerHow Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
Books by Black Authors That Don't Feature Slavery, Colonialism, Racism, or Poverty
193 books — 78 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Best American Historical Fiction
445 books — 336 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa and the Diaspora
150 books — 70 voters

The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonWench by Dolen Perkins-ValdezNative Son by Richard WrightA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Best Black Historical Fiction
331 books — 306 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonNative Son by Richard WrightPassing by Nella LarsenThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance
142 books — 72 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouKindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Books by Black Authors
909 books — 366 voters