Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by The Dude (17 Lists)



Imperialism by Vladimir LeninDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich EngelsThe Accumulation of Capital by Rosa LuxemburgWhat Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
/lit/ leftist texts
121 books — 24 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownChicken Soup for the Soul by Jack CanfieldDude, Where's My Country? by Michael MooreTwilight by Stephenie MeyerGuilty by Ann Coulter
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,875 voters

Grimscribe by Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,095 voters
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 261 voters

Virgin Sex for Guys by Darcy Luadzers
Book Recommendations for Jon Snow
149 books — 216 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Contemporary Western Novels
120 books — 141 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyButcher's Crossing by John Williams
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Trial by Franz Kafka
A List for Those Who Want to Run Screaming at the Mention of Sparkly Vampires, Fifty Shades of Abusive Relationships, or Other Assorted Mass Marketed Crap
1,200 books — 583 voters

The Cantos by Ezra PoundThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriBeowulf by Unknown
Poetry
902 books — 460 voters
The Iliad by Homer
Start With The Greeks
15 books — 3 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,282 books — 5,246 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George OrwellThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,026 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,043 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovCat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Popular Penguins
200 books — 102 voters

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyMetamorphoses by OvidOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael AzerradGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
1,053 books — 182 voters
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson28 Days Later by Alex Garland
Best Zombie Books
1,438 books — 3,074 voters

Dune Messiah by Frank HerbertDune by Frank Herbert
The Classics of Frank Herbert
37 books — 57 voters