Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter Waller (305 Lists)



The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Global Reading
418 books — 218 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Trigger by Tim ButcherWild Swans by Jung Chang
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,002 books — 2,030 voters

Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayMemoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
Socialist Classics
422 books — 327 voters
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
Russian Revolution 1917
46 books — 12 voters

Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
The Russian Revolution
73 books — 19 voters
Genghis Khan by John Man
The Mongols for Beginners
19 books — 13 voters

Genghis Khan by John Man
Best Medieval History Books
810 books — 329 voters
Life And Fate by Vasily GrossmanBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyI, Claudius by Robert GravesOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Classics of World Literature
331 books — 50 voters

Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
Russian Classic Collections published literature
16 books — 2 voters
Life And Fate by Vasily GrossmanStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Support Ukraine - buy Ukrainian Books
44 books — 4 voters

Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
Vintage Classic Russians Series
6 books — 7 voters
Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
Vintage Classics Design
27 books — 35 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerOld Glory by Jonathan Raban
Inspiring Travel Writing
149 books — 27 voters
Walking the Americas by Levison WoodBlood River by Tim ButcherInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,119 books — 1,846 voters

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsBad Science by Ben Goldacre
Classics for Skeptics
28 books — 26 voters
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganBad Science by Ben GoldacreThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensTrick or Treatment by Simon Singh
A Skeptic's Library
170 books — 127 voters

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Notable Atheist Books
543 books — 937 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Wordsworth Editions
175 books — 49 voters

Taking On The World by Ellen MacArthurWild Swans by Jung ChangLove in a Time of War by Lara Marlowe
Memoirs by Women
2,988 books — 3,016 voters
The Pelican Brief by John GrishamTooth and Nail by Ian RankinRed Square by Martin Cruz SmithStrip Jack by Ian RankinThe Ice House by Minette Walters
Best Books of 1992
457 books — 197 voters

Quiet American by Graham GreeneSaint Jack by Paul Theroux
The best Ex-pat lit
43 books — 54 voters
Chess Story by Stefan ZweigMy System by Aron Nimzowitsch
Best Books About Chess
59 books — 30 voters

Chess for Zebras by Jonathan RowsonMy System by Aron NimzowitschPoint Count Chess by I.A. Horowitz
Best Chess Books
298 books — 127 voters
The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman
Mystery & Thriller 2020
368 books — 571 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonJackdaw Cake by Norman Lewis
Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction
940 books — 1,242 voters
Jackdaw Cake by Norman LewisA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtChronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,093 books — 1,943 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThis is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
This is the.......life
1,189 books — 62 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxJourney Without Maps by Graham GreeneThe Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul TherouxNo Mercy by Redmond O'Hanlon
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 114 voters

January Window by Philip KerrFalse Nine by Philip KerrHand of God by Philip Kerr
Best Football (Soccer) Fiction
32 books — 10 voters
Crackdown by Bernard Cornwell
Modern Maritime Adventure
32 books — 11 voters


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