Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gareth Cronin (12 Lists)



Trust by Hernan DiazThe Furrows by Namwali SerpellDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverCheckout 19 by Claire-Louise BennettThe Candy House by Jennifer Egan
New York Times Ten Best Books 2004-2022 (the five fiction)
94 books — 7 voters
Shape Up by Ryan SingerIt Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason FriedRework by Jason FriedRemote by David Heinemeier Hansson
Books by Basecamp
5 books — 2 voters

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroThe Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners
94 books — 89 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,744 books — 25,982 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,001 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Son by Philipp MeyerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Westerns
1,374 books — 1,499 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,938 voters
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,105 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Books I wish I had never read
1,283 books — 1,335 voters
The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroSacred Hunger by Barry UnsworthThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyVernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters