Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Vicky (33 Lists)



A House with Good Bones by T. KingfisherEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettThe Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani ChokshiThornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Can't Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2023
468 books — 1,084 voters
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco MellorsWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
angst books
53 books — 2 voters

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco MellorsThe Memory Police by Yōko OgawaAll's Well by Mona Awad
best books for chaotic-alignment sad girls
128 books — 36 voters
All's Well by Mona AwadCleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco MellorsDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh ChouI'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
She's Not Feeling Good at All: Sad Female Characters
199 books — 333 voters

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
2023: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,067 books — 112 voters
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Barnes & Noble Book Club Selections
50 books — 14 voters

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Best Books of 2023
1,217 books — 1,840 voters
The Guest by Emma Cline
[ATY 2024] Similar Covers
336 books — 62 voters

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. MaasThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanVioleta by Isabel AllendeReminders of Him by Colleen HooverA Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Best Books of 2022
1,543 books — 1,854 voters
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertFloat Plan by Trish DollerTwice Shy by Sarah HogleThe Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Goodreads Choice Awards 2021 (eligible for write-in only)
2,645 books — 3,821 voters

Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel ShriverBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
[ATY 2022] Aging, or The Golden Years
213 books — 125 voters
Hurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorSinestesia by Nicolás Poblete PardoTravesías del Hombre Lobo by Lucía GuerraThe Street of Night by Lucía GuerraThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
[ATY 2022] 3 Different Continents (South America)
80 books — 43 voters

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
[ATY 2022] Academia or Teacher-Impacted
223 books — 104 voters
Sinestesia by Nicolás Poblete PardoHurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorLas constelaciones oscuras by Pola OloixaracSistema nervioso by Lina MeruaneDestinos errantes by Andrea Jeftanovic
[ATY 2022] Latin American Authors
189 books — 103 voters

A Passage North by Anuk ArudpragasamThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
[ATY 2022] Asian or Pacific Islander Author
341 books — 118 voters
The Best American Travel Writing 2021 by Padma LakshmiParadise by Lizzie JohnsonDreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell RichSecondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichThe Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
[ATY 2022] Language or Nationality in Title
752 books — 127 voters

Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt
Best Books for Multipotentialites
11 books — 5 voters
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Dark Academia
363 books — 1,493 voters

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Popsugar 2021 #11 - A Book About Forgetting
156 books — 302 voters
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,017 voters

Uprooted by Naomi NovikA Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Best retellings of Beauty and the Beast
344 books — 1,126 voters
The Flatshare by Beth O'LearyThe Unhoneymooners by Christina LaurenThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Books with similar illustrations.
373 books — 270 voters

Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (eligible for write-in only)
1,118 books — 1,362 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Inspiring Travel Writing
149 books — 27 voters

Blood River by Tim Butcher
Understanding Africa
43 books — 19 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Dark Times: Terrible Past and Present in our World (Non-Fiction)
83 books — 21 voters

Blood River by Tim Butcher
Unique Nonfiction Books
302 books — 162 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Title Challenge - Water
1,780 books — 112 voters

Blood River by Tim Butcher
Best Historical Travel Journals
335 books — 239 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Best Books Ever
76,081 books — 282,669 voters


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