Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Redroc (11 Lists)



Winter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellThe Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockPost Office by Charles BukowskiKnockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Regional Grit Lit
120 books — 87 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellCrimes in Southern Indiana by Frank BillJoe by Larry Brown
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

Deliverance by James DickeyChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Set in Appalachia
794 books — 838 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisCrash by J.G. BallardA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 967 voters

Earth Abides by George R. StewartAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Postman by David BrinThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Post-Apocalyptic Books
220 books — 235 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockFight Club by Chuck PalahniukAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George Orwell
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian Books
523 books — 1,030 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Cult Classics
1,567 books — 2,121 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 585 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyEarth Abides by George R. Stewart
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,245 books — 3,412 voters