Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Katie (15 Lists)



If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Young Adult Romance
4,020 books — 9,660 voters
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban
Best Gay Romance with Good Sexual Tension
746 books — 601 voters

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Black History Month
553 books — 493 voters
Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof
Women & Gender Studies
1,461 books — 546 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Books that should probably be classics
33 books — 11 voters
Night by Elie Wiesel
Good Books Concerning the Holocaust
160 books — 103 voters

Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaThe Gendered Society Reader by Michael S. Kimmel
Must reads for feminists
51 books — 32 voters
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,908 voters

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,101 voters
Walk Two Moons by Sharon CreechSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonHoles by Louis SacharAmong the Hidden by Margaret Peterson HaddixThe Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Best Young Adult Books
13,096 books — 80,179 voters

The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni Morrison
African American Books That Changed Our Lives
126 books — 172 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Young Adult Romance That You Will Read Again and Again
134 books — 142 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNight by Elie WieselThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,537 books — 120,058 voters