Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by L (18 Lists)



The Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonVillette by Charlotte BrontëQuicksand by Nella LarsenWise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Women on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" List
287 books — 165 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonMiddlemarch by George Eliot
25 Women to Read Before You Die
25 books — 15 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
100 Books by Black Women Everyone Should Read
103 books — 56 voters
The Ties That Bound by Barbara A. HanawaltInterior Castle by Teresa de ÁvilaWomen's Lives in Medieval Europe by Emilie Amt
From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
279 books — 134 voters

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 Contemporary Short Story Collections By Women You Should Really Read
15 books — 27 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Flavorwire: 50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014
50 books — 68 voters

All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. JonesThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazUnbowed by Wangari MaathaiPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winners
40 books — 10 voters
The Sound of Waves by Yukio MishimaLes Misérables by Victor HugoInterior Castle by Teresa de ÁvilaThe Cloud of Unknowing by AnonymousDear Life by Alice Munro
What we've read so far in...2014
9,382 books — 2,038 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceEast of Eden by John SteinbeckA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersOrlando by Virginia Woolf
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne VeraIn My Father's House by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
100 books — 65 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,742 books — 8,872 voters
Ghosts by John BanvilleJanet Frame, Stories & Poems by Janet Frame
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,182 books — 765 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthySuttree by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Known World by Edward P. JonesThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,374 books — 14,626 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,811 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters