Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jill (35 Lists)



The Idiot by Elif BatumanThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Girls by John BowenThe Girls by Emma ClineBear by Julia Phillips
Popsugar 2025 #37/#38 - Two Books with the Same Title
299 books — 69 voters
The Last Days of California by Mary MillerListen to Me by Hannah Pittard
Popsugar 2025 #12 - A Book About a Road Trip
168 books — 140 voters

Romantic Comedy by Curtis SittenfeldOld Flame by Molly PrentissI Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Anticipated 2023 Literary Fiction
367 books — 207 voters
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi AndreadesDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2022
226 books — 130 voters

Wayward by Dana SpiottaBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The Milions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Preview (July - September)
86 books — 33 voters
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie WaltonMilk Fed by Melissa BroderHow Beautiful We Were by Imbolo MbueBlack Buck by Mateo AskaripourCompetitive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 588 voters

Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2021
1,013 books — 202 voters
The Road Less Taken by Kathryn BertineYou & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
Women + Bicycles
19 books — 11 voters

You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
Road trips in America
82 books — 18 voters
Americana by Luke Healy
Illustrated Journeys — Graphic Travel Memoirs
46 books — 27 voters

You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
Travel without a Motor
158 books — 37 voters
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
56 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020
57 books — 22 voters

Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Serious Graphic Novels for Adult Readers
308 books — 72 voters
The Body Politic by Brian PlatzerNight Theater by Vikram ParalkarThe Exhibition of Persephone Q by Jessi Jezewska StevensSad Janet by Lucie BritschPizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
588 books — 1,241 voters

Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Women's biographies 2019
270 books — 123 voters
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Comics & Graphic Novels by Women
1,491 books — 1,361 voters

And Now We Have Everything by Meaghan O'Connell
2018 Non-male Non-Fiction
304 books — 146 voters
Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff
YA Fiction Featuring Fangirls, Fanboys, or General Fandom
166 books — 266 voters

Back Talk by Danielle LazarinThe Pisces by Melissa BroderThe Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Anticipated 2018 Literary Fiction
225 books — 198 voters
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,104 voters

The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
Flavorwire The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2016
50 books — 50 voters
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Compelling Medical Memoirs
369 books — 160 voters

Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
329 books — 700 voters
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Art & Artists in Fiction
930 books — 1,105 voters

After Birth by Elisa Albert
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
283 books — 1,364 voters
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah MangusoBrain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Firsthand Accounts of Living with Chronic, Invisible Illness(es)
329 books — 125 voters

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
817 books — 406 voters
After Birth by Elisa AlbertA Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel
Darkly humorous novels about parenting
24 books — 14 voters


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