Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ryan (26 Lists)



Solaris by Stanisław LemZeros and Ones by Sadie PlantNeoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth SandiferLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesConfessions by Augustine of Hippo
Theory Fiction
117 books — 32 voters
Against the Grain by James C. ScottA Thousand Plateaus by Gilles DeleuzeGeohell by Matthew Kenner
Great Steppe.
112 books — 21 voters

Capitalism by Anwar ShaikhCapital by Karl Marx
Heterodox Economics Book Club
125 books — 49 voters
The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher HillLeviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
94 books — 36 voters

Capital by Karl MarxThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Best Left-Texts
669 books — 359 voters
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John PerkinsOperation Paperclip by Annie JacobsenManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy
Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)
1,348 books — 637 voters

White Rage by Carol AndersonWhite Trash by Nancy IsenbergAusterity by Mark BlythAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Why Trump Won: Understanding the 2016 Electorate
231 books — 55 voters
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Business History
440 books — 190 voters

Crashed by Adam ToozeCapital by Karl MarxNever Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste by Philip MirowskiSecrets of the Temple by William Greider
Understanding the Financial Crisis 2008
164 books — 250 voters
Capital by Karl Marx
Best Economics Books List For Beginners
39 books — 38 voters

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters
Capital by Karl MarxTen Days that Shook the World by John ReedHistory and Class Consciousness by György LukácsThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonSelections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
Socialist Classics
420 books — 326 voters

Capital by Karl MarxThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Leviathan by Thomas HobbesSelections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
Politics
491 books — 460 voters
Capital by Karl Marx
Critical Thinking
198 books — 136 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Best books for humanities degree
408 books — 93 voters
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanThe Wages of Whiteness by David R. RoedigerThe Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm ReichReflections on Violence by Georges SorelOrdinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
524 books — 276 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
805 books — 489 voters
Dirty Words by Robin E. Jensen
Reproductive Justice
83 books — 23 voters

Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer
Social Justice Education
332 books — 85 voters
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordSimulacra and Simulation by Jean BaudrillardThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinPlato by Plato
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,279 books — 1,420 voters

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantMetaphysics by AristotleThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Will to Power by Friedrich NietzscheDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Knowledge
216 books — 142 voters
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles DeleuzeAnti-Oedipus by Gilles DeleuzeOn the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Essential Continental Philosophy
75 books — 24 voters

Urban Outcasts by Loïc WacquantChanges in the Land by William CrononThe Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
Best Books about Capitalism
50 books — 28 voters
Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer
The Speculative Turn
36 books — 19 voters

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale ScottJFK by L. Fletcher ProutyMortal Error by Bonar Menninger
JFK Conspiracy Books
53 books — 60 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnDark Money by Jane Mayer
Books to Read under the Trump Administration
1,169 books — 518 voters