Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Nikki (14 Lists)



In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline WinspearThe Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNealIn Farleigh Field by Rhys BowenRacing the Devil by Charles ToddMurder on the Serpentine by Anne Perry
Most Anticipated Historical Mysteries for 2017
113 books — 182 voters
A Christmas Feast and other stories by Katie Fforde
Christmas Romantic Comedy/Chick Lit
435 books — 585 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteO Pioneers! by Willa CatherSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best books about the Mid West
150 books — 89 voters
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainBabbitt by Sinclair LewisMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Novels of the American Midwest
338 books — 157 voters

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Fantasy of Manners
294 books — 497 voters
Blood of Tyrants by Naomi NovikCoraline by Neil GaimanCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Can't Wait Science Fiction/Fantasy of 2013
625 books — 2,903 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendePractical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,515 voters
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,838 voters

Best Books Ever
76,086 books — 282,720 voters
Tigana by Guy Gavriel KayThe Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,208 books — 25,720 voters

Truman by David McCulloughThe Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot MorisonAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerThe Mind of the South by W.J. Cash
Best American History Books
2,121 books — 2,490 voters
The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe World Is Flat by Thomas L. FriedmanWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
935 books — 1,100 voters