Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by kohey (26 Lists)



The Hours by Michael CunninghamOrlando by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,761 books — 2,168 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Reivers by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerSanctuary by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
85 books — 64 voters

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
NYT Notable Books (Non-Fiction) 2017
50 books — 29 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersLight in August by William FaulknerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters

The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfNight and Day by Virginia WoolfA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
From Virginia's Room
85 books — 60 voters
The Plague by Albert CamusThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Jim Morrison's Bookshelf
84 books — 17 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonNative Son by Richard WrightThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,138 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerPoachers by Tom FranklinThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Works of Southern Literature
99 books — 29 voters
Provinces of Night by William Gay
Best of William Gay
20 books — 6 voters

Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
145 books — 133 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Race & Blackness: A Reading List
49 books — 4 voters

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview
76 books — 157 voters
Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabó
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 155 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Fifties Fiction Favorites
99 books — 113 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'ConnorCockfighter by Charles Willeford
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerNative Son by Richard WrightThe Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by
305 books — 115 voters
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,206 books — 952 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Shining by Stephen King
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,000 voters
Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin
Buzzfeed- 21 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Fall
21 books — 18 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Burglar by David GoodisThe Chill by Ross MacdonaldThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime Pulps
159 books — 39 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
African American Books for Teens
318 books — 357 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsThe Go-Between by L.P. HartleyThe Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOliver Twist by Charles DickensCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLast Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Underclass
375 books — 131 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
524 books — 276 voters