Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mia (20 Lists)



Girl Meets Boy by Ali SmithAsh by Malinda Lo
Lesbian Retellings
144 books — 61 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoShiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Best Books About Animals
1,841 books — 1,852 voters

Matchless by Gregory MaguireBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Worst Books I've Ever Read
150 books — 16 voters
Alanna by Tamora PierceElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
3,074 books — 8,676 voters

Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,220 books — 68,229 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert
SF Masterworks
196 books — 721 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction
3,651 books — 6,977 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDune by Frank Herbert
Best Books Ever
76,123 books — 282,969 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodGirl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology
366 books — 538 voters
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beatonxkcd by Randall MunroeGreat Aches by John Allison
Best of the Web
463 books — 456 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Best Love Stories
5,172 books — 9,632 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonSkinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Best Humorous Books
4,328 books — 7,888 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAssassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,208 books — 25,723 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreY by Brian K. VaughanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanPride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Graphic Novels
3,451 books — 6,767 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,218 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineWicked by Gregory MaguirePeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon ScieszkaFables, Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,797 books — 9,159 voters

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownAvalon High by Meg CabotThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred TennysonThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,442 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,665 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Complete Poems by John Keats
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienStardust by Neil GaimanThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,101 voters