Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dick Varga (5 Lists)



A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanInferno by Dante AlighieriMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Best Middle Ages Books
1,220 books — 1,701 voters
The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareUtopia by Thomas MoreDr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 541 voters

Travels with Charley by John SteinbeckThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,121 books — 1,848 voters
Oedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Trojan Women by Euripides
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 294 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyAnimal Farm by George OrwellIshmael by Daniel QuinnFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Anarchist books
470 books — 372 voters