Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bill Janssen (18 Lists)



Don't Forget to Breathe by Ashim Shanker
Fate Vs. Free Will
26 books — 15 voters
Only the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerDon't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerSinew of the Social Species by Ashim Shanker
Books That Make You Go "Hmm"
369 books — 187 voters

Only the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerDon't Forget to Breathe by Ashim Shanker
Novels of ideas
92 books — 34 voters
Only the Deplorable by Ashim Shanker
Best Author-Created Religions
99 books — 109 voters

Only the Deplorable by Ashim Shanker
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,723 voters
Only the Deplorable by Ashim Shanker
Quality Dark Fiction
2,508 books — 3,222 voters

Only the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerSinew of the Social Species by Ashim Shanker
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,686 books — 14,159 voters
Only the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerSinew of the Social Species by Ashim Shanker
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Only the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerDon't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerSinew of the Social Species by Ashim ShankerSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas LigottiGrimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,092 voters
Only the Deplorable by Ashim Shanker
Cult fction
359 books — 205 voters

Sinew of the Social Species by Ashim ShankerDon't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerOnly the Deplorable by Ashim Shanker
What we've read so far in...2014
9,383 books — 2,039 voters
Sinew of the Social Species by Ashim Shanker
books for your existential crisis
164 books — 100 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Metamorphosis by Peter KuperVALIS by Philip K. DickThe Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe
Bizarre books
665 books — 415 voters
Don't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerOnly the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
Weirdest Books Ever
1,193 books — 1,184 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesNausea by Jean-Paul SartreDon't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerTo Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London
After DFW's "Eclectic/Obscure Fictions for Writers" Syllabus
79 books — 47 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Don't Forget to Breathe by Ashim Shanker1984 by George OrwellOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Postmodern cult classics
87 books — 99 voters

Don't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerOnly the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
Don't Forget to Breathe by Ashim ShankerOnly the Deplorable by Ashim ShankerThe Marlowe Conspiracy by M.G. ScarsbrookFrankie & Formaldehyde by M. JonesDIP & DEVOUR by Mary Kate Kopec
Best Independent Novels
2,675 books — 3,693 voters