Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Miriam (79 Lists)



A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. BeagleSlade House by David Mitchell
Ghost Stories
1,485 books — 1,879 voters
The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinAncillary Justice by Ann LeckieThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonAll Systems Red by Martha WellsAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
NPR Books Summer Poll 2021 - 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade
50 books — 23 voters

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyCloud Atlas by David MitchellOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,749 books — 25,991 voters
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannLush Life by Richard PriceRagtime by E.L. DoctorowHeroic Measures by Jill CimentThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Best Books Set in New York City
379 books — 393 voters

The Innocents by Michael CrummeyFive Wives by Joan ThomasEye (149) by Marianne MicrosLate Breaking by K.D. MillerThe Student by Cary Fagan
2019 Governor General Literary Finalists
35 books — 5 voters
The Innocents by Michael CrummeySmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail ColesLampedusa by Steven PriceReproduction by Ian WilliamsImmigrant City by David Bezmozgis
2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long List
12 books — 7 voters

Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellBeloved by Toni MorrisonMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieCutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Best Multicultural General Fiction
588 books — 376 voters
Knucklehead by Adam SmyerThere There by Tommy OrangeThe Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake SmithTranscription by Kate Atkinson
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2019
92 books — 190 voters

This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray BelcourtDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Eden Mills Writers' Festival - 2018 Books
39 books — 9 voters
Exit West by Mohsin HamidHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieCommonwealth by Ann Patchett
Born in the 1960s - What We've Read in 2017
729 books — 42 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersNews of the World by Paulette Jiles
2018: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,747 books — 302 voters
There There by Tommy OrangeHappiness by Aminatta FornaPriestdaddy by Patricia LockwoodLandmarks by Robert MacfarlaneStephen Florida by Gabe Habash
Born in the 1960s - What We've Read in 2018
753 books — 52 voters

Flights by Olga TokarczukThe Immortalists by Chloe BenjaminAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesThe Overstory by Richard PowersArcadia by Lauren Groff
CCSEAJMMT 2018 Book Club Options
27 books — 1 voter
Exit West by Mohsin HamidAutumn by Ali SmithLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Man Booker Shortlist 2017
6 books — 15 voters

Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 237 voters
The Sellout by Paul BeattyThe Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim WintonReservoir 13 by Jon McGregorBe Like the Fox by Erica BennerThe Infidel and the Professor by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Guardian Best Book 2017 (Part Two)
41 books — 6 voters

Autumn by Ali SmithHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersThe Once and Future Liberal by Mark LillaThere Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
Guardian Best Book 2017 (Part One)
64 books — 27 voters
Autumn by Ali SmithExit West by Mohsin HamidLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Man Booker Longlist 2017
13 books — 57 voters

Autumn by Ali SmithExit West by Mohsin HamidManhattan Beach by Jennifer EganHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieGolden Hill by Francis Spufford
Washington Post 50 Notable (Fiction)
50 books — 11 voters
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganInsomniac City by Bill HayesThe Leavers by Lisa KoThe Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerAll Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Best Books of 2017
1,737 books — 3,083 voters

The Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersExit West by Mohsin HamidWhite Tears by Hari Kunzru
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2018
174 books — 384 voters
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy WilliamsHomegoing by Yaa GyasiMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutCommonwealth by Ann Patchett
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 155 voters

Age of Anger by Pankaj MishraAmerican Fire by Monica HesseAnimals Strike Curious Poses by Elena PassarelloThe Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. TysonBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
NYT Notable Books (Non-Fiction) 2017
50 books — 29 voters
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganThe Power by Naomi Alderman
NYT Notable Books (Fiction) 2017
50 books — 21 voters

The Pleasure of the Text by Roland BarthesMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Sellout by Paul BeattyThe Incarnations by Susan Barker
Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016
283 books — 1,364 voters

Completing College by Vincent TintoWhat the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain
Student Affairs Must Reads
21 books — 8 voters
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
2,511 books — 2,757 voters


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