Big Books of 2026

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



Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Fiction Books with Polyamorous Relationships
300 books — 188 voters
I Shock Myself by Beatrice WoodThe Lonely City by Olivia LaingDown Below by Leonora CarringtonFurther Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart RossMy Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith
Memoirs: Beautiful, Weird, Experimental, But Not Celebrity (An Education)
343 books — 137 voters

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'NeillBottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe WhittallThe Tin Flute by Gabrielle RoyFive Roses by Alice ZornBarkskins by Annie Proulx
Québec
329 books — 69 voters
Bird by Bird by Anne LamottLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Best Books on Creative Life
507 books — 618 voters

Histoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageDelta of Venus by Anaïs NinStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleLittle Birds by Anaïs NinThe Gentlemen's Club by Emmanuelle de Maupassant
Best Literary Erotica
130 books — 106 voters
I'm with the Band by Pamela Des Barres
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,438 books — 1,342 voters

What the Crow Said by Robert KroetschA Beauty by Connie Gault
Canadian Prairies
100 books — 39 voters
Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Robber Bride by Margaret AtwoodFifth Business by Robertson DaviesThe Rebel Angels by Robertson DaviesThrough Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
That Night in Toronto
212 books — 156 voters

Shades by Tom Walmsley
Best Unappreciated Books
4,358 books — 2,203 voters
Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns by Philip MillerDifferent Loving by Gloria G. BrameJay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook by Jay WisemanCome Hither by Gloria G. BrameThe Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage by Midori
Best BDSM non-fiction
96 books — 132 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayZ by Therese Anne FowlerMan Ray's Montparnasse by Herbert R. LottmanOpium by Jean CocteauThat Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan
Little Bit of Paris
173 books — 67 voters
Coming Together Presents by Amanda EarlBeautiful Losers by Remittance GirlThe Splinter by Remittance GirlThe Waiting Room by Remittance GirlGaijin by Remittance Girl
Best Intelligent Erotica
273 books — 309 voters

On Being Blue by William H. GassAn Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour by Victoria FinlayThe Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. ClairMake Ink by Jason LoganSecret Language of Color by Joann Eckstut
The History of Colors
68 books — 35 voters
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson DaviesSandra Beck by John LaveryVery Good Butter by John LaveryYou, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off by John LaveryHalf Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Compelling CanLit Fiction
374 books — 53 voters

The Cure of Souls by Phil RickmanThe Lake and the Library by S.M. BeikoThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantEverybody Has Everything by Katrina OnstadMagnified World by Grace O'Connell
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,065 books — 2,654 voters
A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshBrick Lane by Monica Ali
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters

A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman100 Selected Poems by E.E. CummingsThe Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,788 voters
Beautiful Losers by Remittance GirlThe Waiting Room by Remittance GirlComing Together Presents by Remittance GirlHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageRaw Silk by Lisabet Sarai
Sexy & Smart Erotica
150 books — 106 voters

Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily KandinskyThe Primary Colors by Alexander TherouxColor by Victoria FinlayA Perfect Red by Amy Butler GreenfieldThe Secondary Colors by Alexander Theroux
Best Books About Colors
87 books — 83 voters