Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Benjamin (64 Lists)



The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
151 books — 104 voters
Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford
Find and seek books
211 books — 12 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehouseUncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. WodehouseThe Best of Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Best P.G. Wodehouse
106 books — 144 voters

The Poems of François Villon by François Villon
Best French Literature
871 books — 1,554 voters
Heidi by Johanna SpyriThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameFairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
59 books — 5 voters

They Were Found Wanting / They Were Divided by Miklós BánffyA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulPalace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street by Naguib MahfouzNaguib Mahfouz by Naguib MahfouzBloody Chamber Wise Children Fireworks by Angela Carter
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
79 books — 11 voters
Buddenbrooks by Thomas MannLucky Per by Henrik PontoppidanRevolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Lone... by Richard YatesThe Complete Henry Bech by John UpdikeRabbit Angstrom by John Updike
Everyman Library Classics
174 books — 96 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Bone People by Keri Hulme
Best Books of 1984
345 books — 160 voters
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PazCollected Stories by Rabindranath TagoreNew and Collected Poems by Czesław MiłoszThe Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataThe Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer
The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf
353 books — 108 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by WOMEN
99 books — 16 voters
Life by Georges PerecThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoNausea by Jean-Paul SartreDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerAtonement by Ian McEwan
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

Flights by Olga TokarczukFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczPoems New and Collected by Wisława SzymborskaBieguni by Olga Tokarczuk
Contemporary Writers from Poland
70 books — 29 voters
The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Rags to Riches Stories
47 books — 34 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenHunger by Knut HamsunThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenThe Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,245 voters
Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu HươngThe General Retires and Other Stories by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp
Books by Vietnamese/Vietnamese-Diaspora Writers
153 books — 71 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,839 voters
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Malaysian Fiction
42 books — 34 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeTrue History of the Kelly Gang by Peter CareyThe Famished Road by Ben Okri
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann MartelAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Neverending Story by Ralph ManheimDune by Frank Herbert
Books that SHOULD be on the 1001-list but aren't
444 books — 122 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollThe Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Puffin Classics
107 books — 38 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyMichael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Melville House Art of the Novella
60 books — 63 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Norton Critical Editions
345 books — 61 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRebecca by Daphne du MaurierEmma by Jane Austen
The Guardian's 50 most influential books by women in English literature
53 books — 108 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Trial by Franz KafkaFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books by Asian Authors
101 books — 41 voters


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