Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bambi (21 Lists)



The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Favorite books from my childhood
4,425 books — 7,426 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Radiolab Suggested Readings
180 books — 240 voters

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Forensics: If It Doesn't Walk, We Bring Out the Chalk
159 books — 224 voters
All Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotModoc by Ralph HelferAll Things Wise and Wonderful by James HerriotThe Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot
Best Non-Fiction Animal Stories
255 books — 111 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
644 books — 279 voters
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas MullenThe Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Medicine and Literature
1,844 books — 2,003 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Best Steampunk Books
1,245 books — 4,096 voters
The Tiger by John Vaillant
Best Man-Eating Creatures Books
24 books — 46 voters

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan PoeFever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Dress Lodger by Sheri HolmanIn the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 577 voters
The Tiger by John Vaillant
Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2010
33 books — 62 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,690 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Victorian London
124 books — 105 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerDune by Frank HerbertHannibal by Thomas HarrisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,875 voters

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen KingThe Mammoth Book of Wolf Men by Stephen JonesThe Howling by Gary Brandner
Werewolf Books That Are Not Found In The Romance Genre
353 books — 271 voters
The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
Tales of Adventure
513 books — 474 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakWatership Down by Richard Adams
Best Books Ever
76,085 books — 282,707 voters
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareTolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,479 books — 119,921 voters

The Shining by Stephen King1984 by George OrwellPet Sematary by Stephen KingThe Exorcist by William Peter BlattyDracula by Bram Stoker
Scariest books of all time
639 books — 732 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerShōgun by James ClavellThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëBirdology by Sy Montgomery
Thought I Would Hate It...But Fell in Love
270 books — 161 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,500 voters