Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Mari (17 Lists)



On Cats by Doris Lessing
Great Cat Books
1,577 books — 949 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,219 books — 5,217 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Historical Fiction
7,405 books — 25,585 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinGerminal by Émile Zola
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,790 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoySiddhartha by Hermann HesseWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,530 books — 120,016 voters

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
Tea for Me, Please
142 books — 57 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Love Stories
5,172 books — 9,632 voters
The Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,276 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Non-American books that every American should read
695 books — 495 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
25 books — 839 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Food-Related Fiction
856 books — 602 voters

Animal's People by Indra SinhaKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiIlluminations by Philippe SollersMeasuring the World by Daniel KehlmannIncendies by Wajdi Mouawad
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters