Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jonny (5 Lists)



The First Day on the Somme by Martin MiddlebrookSeparate Little War by Andrew D. BirdA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanWar Without Garlands by Robert KershawStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,122 books — 2,354 voters
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Black Echo by Michael ConnellyA Drink Before the War by Dennis LehaneDarkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 878 voters

The Coldest Winter by David HalberstamThe Korean War by Max HastingsTo the Last Round by Andrew SalmonScorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
Korean War
136 books — 52 voters
The Last Valley by Martin WindrowWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreMarine Sniper by Charles HendersonBorn on the Fourth of July by Ron KovicMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Vietnam War Books
216 books — 127 voters

Stalingrad by Antony BeevorGulag by Anne Applebaum
Best Russian History Books
548 books — 383 voters