Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Crisanta (22 Lists)



Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Realistic Fiction
116 books — 130 voters
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo CoelhoFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Mind
436 books — 462 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,988 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxRebecca by Daphne du MaurierLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Younger Woman/Older Man
583 books — 673 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFingersmith by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah WatersThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Twists
8,352 books — 8,965 voters
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,271 voters

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Scary People Who Write Books
106 books — 70 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Female Lead Characters
4,846 books — 5,882 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Books for Morbid Kids
730 books — 524 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Odyssey by Homer
Quality Dark Fiction
2,508 books — 3,227 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëInferno by Dante AlighieriCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters
The End of the Affair by Graham GreeneLiving Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Not So Happily-Ever-After
779 books — 1,063 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee HarperJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books to Read On a Rainy Day
767 books — 454 voters
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullersThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,502 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,026 books — 2,650 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAffinity by Sarah Waters
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,772 books — 2,167 voters

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton EllisLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisDicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,832 books — 21,953 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckMatilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books Ever
76,167 books — 283,189 voters
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelAnthem by Ayn Rand
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,873 voters