Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Cathy (21 Lists)



The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Chess-themed Fiction
104 books — 139 voters
They Return At Evening by H.R. WakefieldImagine a Man in a Box by H.R. WakefieldRandalls Round by Eleanor ScottThe Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories by H.R. WakefieldThe EC Archives by Al Feldstein
New Editions of Vintage Horror
42 books — 26 voters

Heir To The Glimmering World by Cynthia OzickThe Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. SmithEleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard YatesIf All The Sand Were Pearl by Pepper EspinozaAs Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 893 voters
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. BeagleA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonGhost Story by Peter StraubTamsin by Peter S. Beagle
Favorite Ghost Stories
443 books — 313 voters

Games Without Rules by Tamim Ansary
Best Middle East Nonfiction
534 books — 373 voters
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonBooks of Blood by Clive BarkerSkeleton Crew by Stephen KingTales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. LovecraftCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Most Terrifying Short Stories
375 books — 493 voters

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers SiddonsThe Other by Thomas TryonAfter Dark by Manly Wade WellmanIn Yana, the Touch of Undying by Michael Shea
Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror
803 books — 412 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
361 books — 717 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiBest Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon BlackwoodCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesDracula by Bram StokerAt the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
Creepy Halloween Stories
185 books — 120 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Witching Hour by Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Books to get you in the Halloween Mood
669 books — 445 voters

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John BellairsSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Tailypo by Joanna C. GaldoneThe Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyJane-Emily by Patricia Clapp
Children's Horror Books
93 books — 95 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieRed Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram ChandraThe Home and the World by Rabindranath TagoreThe Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
India: Fiction
319 books — 322 voters
The Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyA Night in the Lonesome October by Roger ZelaznyA Halloween Reader by Lesley Pratt BannatyneSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyGhost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Best Halloween Books
699 books — 728 voters

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienA Year Down Yonder by Richard PeckThe High King by Lloyd Alexander
The Most Deserving Newbery
114 books — 2,999 voters
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph MitchellFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
I Love New York City
609 books — 355 voters

Kim by Rudyard KiplingShantaram by Gregory David RobertsThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Excellent Books about India and England
279 books — 268 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
What to read when you've finished Jane Austen
528 books — 676 voters

The Art of Simple Food by Alice WatersEssentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella HazanVegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah MadisonFrench Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Best Cookbooks
1,439 books — 1,106 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
466 books — 1,587 voters

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger ZelaznyThe October Country by Ray BradburyThe Witches of Eastwick by John UpdikeThe Secret History by Donna TarttAncient Images by Ramsey Campbell
Best Books To Read In Autumn
876 books — 519 voters