Big Books of 2026

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



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,605 voters
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,061 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,442 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Books Most Likely to Create Hatred of English Literature
57 books — 91 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,789 voters
Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeVenus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1001 Books I Have Already Read
523 books — 459 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
376 books — 281 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,111 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Red and the Black by StendhalBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,573 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,606 books — 13,135 voters