Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gillian (7 Lists)



Of Love and Shadows by Isabel AllendeThe Body of the Beasts by Audrée WilhelmyVagabonds by Hao JingfangThe Original Dream by Nukila AmalThe Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
SFF in Translation
131 books — 12 voters
Daughter from the Dark by Marina DyachenkoVagabonds by Hao JingfangThe Inhabited Island by Arkady StrugatskyThe Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate
2020 Adult SFF Translations Into English
5 books — 3 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelMouthful of Birds by Samanta SchweblinUnder the Stone by Karoline GeorgesDark Constellations by Pola OloixaracParadise Rot by Jenny Hval
SFF by Women in Translation
77 books — 9 voters
The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
Women in Translation
924 books — 305 voters

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Best Indie Fantasy Books Worth a Read
1,568 books — 1,666 voters
Fall from Grace by Wayne ArthursonTilly by Monique Gray SmithNobody Cries At Bingo by Dawn DumontThe Winter We Danced by The Kino-nda-niimi Collecti...Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice
Best Canadian Indigenous Literature
186 books — 169 voters

Valley Sutra by Kuldip GillDharma Rasa by Kuldip GillMy Year of Meats by Ruth OzekiObasan by Joy KogawaEverything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
Asian Canadian Authors
120 books — 38 voters