Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joseph Stieb (18 Lists)



Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeNo Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise SnyderFurious Hours by Casey Cep
The Economist - Books of the Year, 2019
40 books — 25 voters
The Day of Battle by Rick AtkinsonOn War by Carl von ClausewitzWar in European History by Michael Eliot Howard
H.R. McMaster's Reading List
39 books — 6 voters

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildDark Money by Jane MayerThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt1984 by George Orwell
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1,169 books — 518 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchMoneyball by Michael Lewis
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,065 voters

Iron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThis Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin FaustReconstruction by Eric FonerWhat This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra ManningFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men by Eric Foner
Ta-Nehisi Coates Essential Reads
67 books — 5 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsTerror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
Sam Harris' Recommended Reading
190 books — 65 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Lost City of Z by David GrannIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
50 Best Non-Fiction Adventure Books: The Essential Man's Library
55 books — 174 voters
Dark Money by Jane MayerThe True Believer by Eric HofferAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Why Trump Won: Understanding the 2016 Electorate
231 books — 55 voters

The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers1984 by George OrwellTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinOn Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
935 books — 1,100 voters
Redeployment by Phil KlayGhost Wars by Steve CollThe Forever War by Dexter FilkinsBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FountainThe Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
252 books — 459 voters

Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Cold War by John Lewis GaddisThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamFiasco by Thomas E. Ricks
American Foreign Policy
460 books — 270 voters
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. WoodAmerican Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. MorganAmerican Colonies by Alan Taylor
Historiography of the American Revolution, 1607-1800 (nonfiction)
128 books — 62 voters

American Crucible by Gary GerstleNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
AP US History Reading List
77 books — 47 voters
On Liberty by John Stuart MillThe End of History and the Last Man by Francis FukuyamaThe Republic by Plato
Politics
491 books — 460 voters

Collapse by Jared DiamondThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Big History
266 books — 107 voters
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Amazon's 2014 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print Format
99 books — 232 voters