Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephanie (6 Lists)



A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersBeloved by Toni MorrisonCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Best Southern Gothic Literature
337 books — 499 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,673 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 212 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFingersmith by Sarah WatersNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroWhat Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë HellerAtonement by Ian McEwan
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters

Possession by A.S. Byatt
Best Historical Fiction
7,405 books — 25,585 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters