Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ross (12 Lists)



Dungeon of Dread by Rose Estes
Best Gamebooks
69 books — 13 voters
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganCollapse by Jared Diamond
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters

Doubt is Their Product by David Michaels
President Obama's Summer Reading List
343 books — 170 voters
Collapse by Jared DiamondFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganEndurance by Alfred Lansing
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,245 books — 4,416 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganCollapse by Jared Diamond
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenCry of the Kalahari by Mark OwensField Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Best Environmental Books
1,072 books — 1,201 voters

The Great Arc by John KeaySoul of the Rhino by Hemanta MishraSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
India
1,013 books — 862 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchCollapse by Jared DiamondLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,061 voters

The Endurance by Caroline AlexanderThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Non-fiction Disaster Books
321 books — 327 voters
Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,689 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannIndian Givers by Jack WeatherfordLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Best American History Books
2,121 books — 2,491 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Best Books of 2006
985 books — 746 voters