Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sam (13 Lists)



The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
Booker Prize Eligible 2022
160 books — 217 voters
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard FlanaganNo One Is Talking About This by Patricia LockwoodPopisho by Leone RossThe Yield by Tara June WinchA Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Booker Prize Eligible 2021
153 books — 177 voters

Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 588 voters
The Aosawa Murders by Riku OndaHigh as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann
Translated Literary Fiction 2020
45 books — 11 voters

At Night All Blood Is Black by David DiopA Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba
International Booker Prize: Eligible Books 2021
120 books — 106 voters
Embroideries by Marjane SatrapiFootnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
History through graphic novels
617 books — 493 voters

One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
International Booker Prize: Eligible Books 2020
193 books — 89 voters
When All is Said by Anne GriffinThe Old Drift by Namwali SerpellLanny by Max PorterBlack Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesFreshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019
175 books — 186 voters

The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard
Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2019
164 books — 118 voters
Border Districts by Gerald MurnaneThe Sparsholt Affair by Alan HollinghurstThere There by Tommy OrangeThe Overstory by Richard PowersKudos by Rachel Cusk
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 237 voters

El impostor by Javier Cercas
Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2018
76 books — 59 voters