Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Njpb (16 Lists)



War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Middle Ages Books
1,219 books — 1,699 voters

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi by G.K. ChestertonThose Terrible Middle Ages! by Régine PernoudA Summa of the Summa by Peter KreeftThe Travels by Marco Polo
Best Medieval History Books
811 books — 321 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,063 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,144 voters
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisA History of the American People by Paul JohnsonCitizen Soldiers by Stephen E. AmbroseMemoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. GrantIntellectuals by Paul Johnson
Best American History Books
2,118 books — 2,488 voters

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Lent Reading List
232 books — 73 voters
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisTheodore Rex by Edmund MorrisThe Everlasting Man by G.K. ChestertonSaint Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
Best History Books
3,699 books — 3,732 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMurder in the Cathedral by T.S. EliotFather Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Catholic Fiction
543 books — 426 voters
Light of the World by Pope Benedict XVIMere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisBetween Heaven and Hell by Peter KreeftBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Books for Catholics
678 books — 215 voters

Orthodoxy by G.K. ChestertonCity of God by Augustine of HippoSumma Theologica by Thomas AquinasMiracles by C.S. LewisThe Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Recommended Books (Besides the Bible) Written by Christian Authors
4,307 books — 3,509 voters
Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Complete Works of Aristotle by AristotleThe Republic by PlatoSumma Theologica by Thomas AquinasThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Best Book Titles
11,381 books — 7,809 voters
An Inconvenient Truth by Al GoreThe Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaThe Pearl by John SteinbeckTwilight by Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,876 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
13,844 books — 14,622 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters