Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Michael Gannon (17 Lists)



Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,375 books — 1,500 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best classics
349 books — 331 voters

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Books with a Heavy Metal Vibe
24 books — 15 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 262 voters

The Dirt by Tommy Lee
Best Books on Rock and Roll
891 books — 1,280 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
James Joyce Reading List
52 books — 38 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,420 voters

The Book of Chuang Tzu by ZhuangziTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Best Books on Taoism
108 books — 130 voters
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Asian Classics
183 books — 58 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by Homer
The Oedipus Cycle and Greek Literature
23 books — 4 voters
Blindsight by Peter WattsThe Dark Forest by Liu CixinThe Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century
191 books — 1,502 voters

Grimscribe by Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
The Best of Thomas Ligotti
19 books — 35 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraUlysses by James Joyce
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Best Books For Anyone and Everyone
117 books — 77 voters

Blindsight by Peter WattsThe Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
best hard science fiction
392 books — 719 voters