Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jack Lindgren (8 Lists)



Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper by Paul E. Johnson
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,825 books — 2,213 voters
The Seven Madmen by Roberto ArltThe Mad Toy by Roberto ArltZama by Antonio di BenedettoFever Dream by Samanta SchweblinAsleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentinian literature
39 books — 5 voters

Women and Men by Joseph McElroy2666 by Roberto BolañoZettels Traum by Arno Schmidt
Postmodern Doorstoppers
13 books — 4 voters
James Joyce/Finnegans Wake by Samuel Beckett
James Joyce Reading List
52 books — 38 voters

The Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton AshImperium by Ryszard KapuścińskiBalkan Ghosts by Robert D. KaplanBury Me Standing by Isabel FonsecaTwilight of Empire by Robert Cullen
Post-Communist Europe
12 books — 2 voters
The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Trial by Franz Kafka
German Modernism
17 books — 2 voters

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Latin American Books
105 books — 46 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters