Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Ciya (6 Lists)



Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Social and Political Satires
499 books — 492 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeNeuromancer by William Gibson
Philosophical Science Fiction
424 books — 395 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best Westerns
1,375 books — 1,500 voters

Stalingrad by Antony BeevorGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony BeevorHomage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,122 books — 2,354 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Best History Books
3,699 books — 3,732 voters