Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Barbara (68 Lists)



The Control of Nature by John McPheeArctic Dreams by Barry LopezWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Some Great Books on Nature
255 books — 146 voters
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John MullanJane Austen by Claire TomalinSo You Think You Know Jane Austen? by John Sutherland
Jane Austen non fiction
58 books — 21 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Three Million Ratings!!!
40 books — 65 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Two Million Ratings!!
69 books — 58 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
One Million Ratings!
229 books — 1,056 voters
A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Susannah CarsonJane Austen by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen and her world
64 books — 35 voters

A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Susannah CarsonA Fine Brush on Ivory by Richard JenkynsReading Jane Austen by Jenny DavidsonThe Regency Years by Robert Morrison30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson
Best Nonfiction About Jane Austen and Her Writing
35 books — 5 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellCranford by Elizabeth GaskellMiddlemarch by George EliotJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
More Jane for the Austen Purist
149 books — 138 voters

The World According to Garp by John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Greatest American Novels of the 20th Century
122 books — 105 voters
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtDubliners by James JoyceDracula by Bram StokerThe Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryA Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 719 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEmma by Jane AustenLes Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Popular Classics Books on Goodreads
254 books — 38 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertOliver Twist by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
500 Masterworks of Fiction (You pick 'em)
494 books — 105 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles DickensLittle Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Best of Charles Dickens
109 books — 256 voters
Hard Times by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotBleak House by Charles DickensVillette by Charlotte Brontë
Nineteenth Century British: Victorian List
48 books — 31 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoEl llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo
Viva México Cabrones
18 books — 3 voters
La perle by John Steinbeck
What foreigners write about Mexico
34 books — 2 voters

Mexicanidad y esquizofrenia by Agustín Basave Benítez
Libros para entender a México
22 books — 3 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDoña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Latin American Classics / Clásicos latinoamericanos
72 books — 12 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPaula by Isabel AllendeDoña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Latin America: Greatest Literature
31 books — 7 voters
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Best Book by Mario Vargas Llosa
28 books — 51 voters

La casa de los espíritus by Isabel Allende
Novelas en español escritas por mujeres
215 books — 102 voters
A Wicked War by Amy S. GreenbergArts and Crafts of Mexico by Chloe Sayer
Books Set in Mexico
474 books — 187 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLos de abajo by Mariano AzuelaThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
Mexican Literature
395 books — 195 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLa casa de los espíritus by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPaula by Isabel Allende
Libros en Español
727 books — 650 voters

La región más transparente by Carlos FuentesMany Mexicos by Lesley Byrd SimpsonThe Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana KennedyRecipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico by Diana KennedyMéxico by Enrique Krauze
Conociendo a México
15 books — 2 voters
The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonNana by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Naturalism and Realism
164 books — 23 voters

An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserAmerican Prometheus by Kai Bird
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,127 books — 1,534 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
299 books — 227 voters

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEducated by Tara WestoverGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,819 books — 6,347 voters
The Liars' Club by Mary KarrNever Cry Wolf by Farley MowatEducated by Tara WestoverCider With Rosie by Laurie LeeThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,435 books — 2,956 voters


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