Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Laura (50 Lists)



Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron
Jane Austen Variations Published in 2022
58 books — 21 voters
Out Front the Following Sea by Leah AngstmanThe Next Ship Home by Heather Webb
Historical Fiction 2022
407 books — 431 voters

The Wardrobe Mistress by Meghan MastersonThe Viennese Dressmaker by Kathryn Gauci
Fashion Historical Fiction
61 books — 25 voters
Poland by James A. MichenerSilent Water by P.K. AdamsMidnight Fire by P.K. Adams
Historical Fiction: Poland
76 books — 49 voters

Silent Water by P.K. AdamsPoland by James A. Michener
Books Set in Poland
88 books — 22 voters
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
Lebanese Authors
10 books — 6 voters

The Embroiderer by Kathryn Gauci
Best Books Set In Greece
152 books — 201 voters
The Embroiderer by Kathryn Gauci
Best Books for The Greek Wives Club
74 books — 31 voters

Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
Novels Inspired by the Spanish Civil War
86 books — 136 voters
The Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre DumasJoan of Arc by Mark Twain
Historical Fiction - France
512 books — 324 voters

Falling Pomegranate Seeds by Wendy J. Dunn
Historical Fiction 2016
340 books — 878 voters
Salammbo by Gustave FlaubertCarthage by Peter HubyCarthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard MilesPhoenician Secrets by Sanford HolstFIRE & BRONZE by Robert Raymond
Carthage
41 books — 17 voters

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,512 books — 119,992 voters

Islamic Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
Queer Islam
85 books — 56 voters
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction
118 books — 63 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDracula by Bram Stoker
Classics That You Couldn't Finish
51 books — 40 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Surrealist Literature
263 books — 214 voters

Ninety-Three by Victor HugoLa Guerre de Vendée, l'amnésie de l'histoire de France by Marie Louise Victoire de Do...La Chambre by Françoise ChandernagorLe Chevalier De Maison Rouge by Alexandre DumasVendée by Reynald Secher
Reign of Terror
21 books — 4 voters
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Black Historical Fiction
331 books — 306 voters

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Epistolary Novels
187 books — 268 voters
Ninety-Three by Victor HugoThe Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre DumasThe Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
The French Revolution
231 books — 293 voters

La Chambre by Françoise ChandernagorInsatiable by Ginger Myrick
Fiction Set During French Revolution
34 books — 62 voters
The First Blast of the Trumpet by Marie MacphersonThe Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Books Set in Scotland
1,003 books — 670 voters

The Contessa's Vendetta by Mirella Sichirollo PatzerThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithVenice by Peter AckroydThe Journeyer by Gary Jennings
Books Set in Venice
310 books — 272 voters
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Viking Historical Fiction
198 books — 285 voters

A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality by Joseph Nicolosi
Books I'll never read.
250 books — 49 voters
Marina by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Historical Cities of Southern Europe
130 books — 44 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,121 books — 1,848 voters
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Best Historical Fiction Covers
168 books — 143 voters


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