Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Amanda (21 Lists)



Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Sapphic Fiction 2022
125 books — 318 voters
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters

Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola GunaratanaWhy Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
A Buddhist Reading List
906 books — 1,180 voters
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
Can't Wait Books of 2020
1,121 books — 2,485 voters

Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #20 A Feel-Good or Happy Book
32 books — 18 voters
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #1 A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India
45 books — 38 voters

The Power by Naomi Alderman
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #5 A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction
31 books — 21 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Giver by Lois LowryOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,556 voters

Educated by Tara Westover
2018 Non-male Non-Fiction
304 books — 146 voters
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanSmitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman
NPR Best Books of 2017
113 books — 25 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsFuriously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,271 voters
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
B*tch Media Recommends
94 books — 29 voters

Kingbird Highway by Kenn KaufmanThe Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme GibsonArte De Pajaros / Art of Birds by Pablo Neruda
For the Love of Birds
237 books — 71 voters
Life List by Olivia GentileMind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
Books About Birds
521 books — 104 voters

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Best Feminist Books
2,515 books — 3,517 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books Ever
76,126 books — 282,996 voters

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
2015: What People Born in the 1980s Have Read in 2015
1,914 books — 528 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Republic by PlatoThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,284 voters

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Solitude
7 books — 3 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,321 books — 5,841 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodFun Home by Alison BechdelThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters