Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bohdan Markevych (32 Lists)



The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataLetters from a Stoic by Seneca
Writers who committed suicide
455 books — 285 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur SchopenhauerNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Best of Evelyn Waugh
74 books — 6 voters

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Humorous Books
4,313 books — 7,859 voters
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
151 books — 104 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Odyssey by HomerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Penguin Classics
595 books — 307 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William GoldingSiddhartha by Hermann HesseSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters

The Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsThe Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Jorge Luis Borges' Personal Library
82 books — 14 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellКрасный апокалипсис by Дмитрий ГойченкоУ карнавалі історії. Свідчення. by Leonid PlyushchKolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Communist Genocide
202 books — 58 voters

Гаррі Поттер і філософський камінь by J.K. RowlingУ пошуках утраченого часу by Marcel ProustФауст by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheПригоди бравого вояка Швейка by Jaroslav HašekПремудрий гідальго Дон Кіхот з Ламанчі by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Ukrainian Translations
125 books — 15 voters
Сад Гетсиманський by Ivan BahrianyiМісто by Valerian PidmohylnyЗемля by Olha KobylianskaЖовтий князь by Василь БаркаВолинь by Улас Самчук
Best Ukrainian novels - Найкращі українські романи
176 books — 69 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse1984 by George OrwellThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,724 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaAuto-da-Fé by Elias CanettiThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Best Austrian Literature
136 books — 58 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,202 books — 25,708 voters
1984 by George OrwellI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,347 books — 24,648 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaI Served the King of England by Bohumil HrabalThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekThe Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
Best Novels from Eastern Europe
198 books — 83 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters

Кобзар by Taras ShevchenkoVillage Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod by Nikolai GogolВелика гармонія. Зібрання творів by Bohdan-Ihor AntonychБорислав сміється by Іван ФранкоМісто by Valerian Pidmohylny
Best ukrainian classics books
164 books — 28 voters
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Books I wish I had never read
1,283 books — 1,335 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonThe World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur SchopenhauerThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 256 voters

Кобзар by Taras ShevchenkoСолодка Даруся by Maria MatiosСад Гетсиманський by Ivan BahrianyiТанґо смерті by Yuri VynnychukЖовтий князь by Василь Барка
Ukrainian Literature
517 books — 123 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
503 books — 1,055 voters

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books I've Put off the Longest
59 books — 9 voters
Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,637 books — 5,994 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,602 books — 13,132 voters
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie MeyerScientology by L. Ron Hubbard
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,875 voters

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Box Man by Kōbō Abe
Best Japanese Books
771 books — 3,248 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Plague by Albert CamusSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,460 books — 119,775 voters


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