Big Books of 2026

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



A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Girls by Emma ClineMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghRadio Silence by Alice OsemanSharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
pov: u need a therapist
138 books — 144 voters
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden KeefeAll That She Carried by Tiya Miles
The Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2021
10 books — 8 voters

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie WaltonHummingbird Salamander by Jeff VandermeerSubdivision by J. Robert Lennon
The Milions' Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview (April - June)
69 books — 43 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeThe Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
16 books — 108 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenWe Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)
234 books — 165 voters
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
Books of Podcasts
140 books — 42 voters

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie WaltonOther People's Children by Jeff HoffmannThe Push by Ashley AudrainBlack Buck by Mateo Askaripour
75 Debut Novels to Discover in 2021(DO NOT ADD TO THIS LIST)
75 books — 109 voters
Infinite Country by Patricia EngelHow Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview (January - March)
84 books — 116 voters

The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha JoukovskyMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.Jane of Battery Park by Jaye Viner
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 588 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters