Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hubert (141 Lists)



2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAusterlitz by W.G. SebaldPostwar by Tony Judt
NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
100 books — 233 voters
Black Flags by Joby WarrickThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books With A Color In The Title
846 books — 125 voters

The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Books on Books: metacovers
385 books — 104 voters
Looking Good by Margaret A. Lowe
Women's Colleges in America
51 books — 7 voters

Looking Good by Margaret A. Lowe
Single-Sex Education
117 books — 16 voters
The World Is Flat by Thomas L. FriedmanGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Geography of Bliss by Eric WeinerCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Popular Geography Books on Goodreads
137 books — 21 voters

The Flag and the Cross by Philip S. GorskiWhite Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
Deconstructing Evangelical Christianity
71 books — 38 voters
Little Children by Tom PerrottaIstanbul by Orhan PamukHouse of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Boston Book Festival 2009
92 books — 19 voters

Nightcrawling by Leila MottleyThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziBook Lovers by Emily HenryVioleta by Isabel AllendeThe Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Best Books of 2022
1,543 books — 1,854 voters
Nightcrawling by Leila MottleyGlory by NoViolet BulawayoThe Trees by Percival EverettSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganThe Colony by Audrey Magee
Booker Prize 2022 Longlist
13 books — 54 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelTender at the Bone by Ruth ReichlComfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
Books that Cook (stories with recipes)
495 books — 79 voters
Ultimate Glory by David GessnerWord Freak by Stefan FatsisPedestrianism by Matthew AlgeoThe Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide by Douglas WalkerBackpacking with the Saints by Belden C. Lane
Best Books about Non-Traditional Sports
19 books — 4 voters

Last Call by Daniel OkrentThe Audacity of Hops by Tom AcitelliDrink by Iain GatelyA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom StandageUnderstanding Mezcal by James Schroeder
All Liquored Up - The History of Alcohol and Drinking (nonfiction)
145 books — 21 voters
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
Elephants
102 books — 67 voters

In Search of the Magic Theater by Karla Huebner
Adult 2022 Debut Novels
141 books — 176 voters
Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections by Stacey AbramsJoe Biden by Evan OsnosA Promised Land by Barack ObamaWhere Law Ends by Andrew WeissmannThe Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky
Politics Published in Year: 2020
185 books — 13 voters

What Happened by Hillary Rodham ClintonFear by Bob WoodwardDark Towers by David EnrichA Promised Land by Barack ObamaBecoming by Michelle Obama
Pro Trump/Pro America
292 books — 30 voters
Ever Green by John W. ReidFight Like Hell by Kim Kelly
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2022
1,119 books — 179 voters

Academically Adrift by Richard ArumThe Price of Admission by Daniel GoldenReal Education by Charles MurrayIlliberal Education by Dinesh D'SouzaThe System by Jeff Benedict
Controversies in Higher Education
171 books — 43 voters
The Gates of Europe by Serhii PlokhyBloodlands by Timothy SnyderUkraine by Serhy Yekelchyk
Best books to understand Ukraine
71 books — 18 voters

Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald TakakiIs Taiwan Chinese? by Melissa J. BrownThe Politics of China by Roderick MacFarquharMinor Feelings by Cathy Park HongAsian Americans in Dixie by Khyati Y. Joshi
Best Books on Asia
994 books — 817 voters
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. LeeThe Food of Italy by Waverley RootThe Taste of Place by Amy B. TrubekAlice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNameeFast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Books about Food
558 books — 195 voters

Hungry Listening by Dylan RobinsonOccupying Alcatraz by Alexis BurlingOccupied America by Rodolfo AcunaStruggle for the Land by Ward ChurchillA Little Matter of Genocide by Ward Churchill
Onkwehón:we Rising Recommended Reading: Revolutionary Indigenist and Anti-Colonial Lit
42 books — 8 voters
Flow by Mihály CsíkszentmihályiSweet Anticipation by David HuronOn Repeat by Elizabeth Hellmuth MargulisThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,332 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonWhat Is Real? by Adam BeckerHow to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
Highly Readable Stuff - Non Fiction
158 books — 31 voters
Parallel Worlds by Michio KakuThe Drunkard's Walk by Leonard MlodinowThe Stuff of Thought by Steven PinkerThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Pop Science Books
171 books — 187 voters

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard HofstadterThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Closing of the American Mind by Allan BloomThe Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
US Intellectual History
255 books — 130 voters
Paris on the Seine by Blake EhrlichThe Greater Journey by David McCulloughZarafa by Michael Allin
Paris as a City: non-fiction
43 books — 12 voters

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andreï MakineThe Kiss by Kathryn HarrisonLolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,191 books — 11,287 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Gay Fiction
2,649 books — 3,866 voters


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