Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Alan Stuart (33 Lists)



August Blue by Deborah LevyCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshVictory City by Salman RushdieShy by Max PorterThe Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Booker Prize Eligible 2023
166 books — 207 voters
Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganOh William! by Elizabeth StroutTreacle Walker by Alan GarnerThe Trees by Percival Everett
Booker Prize Shortlist 2022
6 books — 12 voters

Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganTreacle Walker by Alan GarnerNightcrawling by Leila MottleyCase Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Booker Prize 2022 Longlist
13 books — 54 voters
Burntcoat by Sarah HallSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganCompanion Piece by Ali SmithThe Candy House by Jennifer EganFree Love by Tessa Hadley
Booker Prize Eligible 2022
160 books — 217 voters

Great Circle by Maggie ShipsteadBewilderment by Richard PowersThe Promise by Damon GalgutThe Fortune Men by Nadifa MohamedA Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
2021 Booker Prize Shortlist
6 books — 11 voters
The Promise by Damon GalgutA Town Called Solace by Mary LawsonChina Room by Sunjeev SahotaAn Island by Karen JenningsLight Perpetual by Francis Spufford
2021 Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 40 voters

Luckenbooth by Jenni FaganThe Promise by Damon GalgutKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroPanenka by Ronan HessionUnsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Booker Prize Eligible 2021
153 books — 177 voters
Actress by Anne EnrightSharks In the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong WashburnApeirogon by Colum McCannThe Mirror & the Light by Hilary MantelHere We Are by Graham Swift
Booker Prize Eligible 2020
160 books — 109 voters

The Mars Room by Rachel KushnerEverything Under by Daisy JohnsonThe Long Take by Robin RobertsonWashington Black by Esi Edugyan
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2018
6 books — 10 voters
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah LevyNight Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif ShafakLanny by Max PorterFrankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Booker Prize 2019 Longlist
13 books — 44 voters

The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadExit West by Mohsin HamidAutumn by Ali SmithDays Without End by Sebastian BarrySolar Bones by Mike McCormack
Man Booker Longlist 2017
13 books — 57 voters
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidMister Pip by Lloyd JonesThe Gathering by Anne EnrightOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Man Booker 2007 - Longlist
9 books — 27 voters

Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Radio 2 Book Club - 2016
24 books — 9 voters
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma HooperSlade House by David Mitchell
Radio 2 Book Club - 2015
24 books — 27 voters

Mothering Sunday by Graham SwiftExposure by Helen DunmoreThe Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni FaganThe Little Red Chairs by Edna O'BrienThirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters
The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaFamily Matters by Rohinton Mistry
India & Man Booker
15 books — 33 voters

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Man Booker Prize shortlist 2015
6 books — 22 voters
How to Be Both by Ali SmithFebruary by Lisa MooreThe Wilderness by Samantha HarveyThe Lives of Others by Neel MukherjeeThe Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggThe Green Road by Anne EnrightThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev SahotaThe Chimes by Anna SmaillLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker 2015 Long List
13 books — 174 voters
The Giant Under the Snow by John GordonMiss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
Book Recommendations for Jon Snow
149 books — 216 voters

The Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroOur Endless Numbered Days by Claire FullerThe Green Road by Anne EnrightA God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe A to Z of You and Me by James Hannah
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganJ by Howard JacobsonThe Lives of Others by Neel MukherjeeHow to Be Both by Ali SmithThe Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 102 voters

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Long Song by Andrea LevyParrot and Olivier in America by Peter CareyRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Man Booker 2010 longlist
13 books — 46 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Glass Room by Simon MawerHow to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah HallHeliopolis by James ScudamoreThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Man Booker 2009 - Longlist
12 books — 30 voters

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda GrantThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Man Booker 2008 - Longlist
12 books — 26 voters
Arctic Summer by Damon GalgutFrog Music by Emma DonoghueThe Letter Bearer by Robert AllisonUpstairs at the Party by Linda GrantThe Thing About December by Donal Ryan
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 694 voters

TransAtlantic by Colum McCannA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiUnexploded by Alison MacLeodWe Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoThe Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 268 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerMiddlemarch by George EliotBleak House by Charles Dickens
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,605 books — 13,134 voters

Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonTransAtlantic by Colum McCannHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin HamidGhana Must Go by Taiye SelasiThe Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
Narcopolis by Jeet ThayilThe Lighthouse by Alison MooreThe Teleportation Accident by Ned BeaumanPhilida by André BrinkBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist
12 books — 177 voters


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