Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Maria (25 Lists)



The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanUnderstanding Power by Noam ChomskyThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,296 books — 1,426 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos FuentesLos años con Laura Díaz by Carlos FuentesThe Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Latin American Fiction
865 books — 1,159 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoAura by Carlos FuentesFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,307 books — 4,545 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos FuentesThe Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio PazPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Latin American Literature - Late 19th Century to Present Day
168 books — 42 voters

The Skin of the Sky by Elena PoniatowskaInés of My Soul by Isabel AllendeThe Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel AllendeEva Luna by Isabel AllendeCity of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
South, Central and Latin American Women Authors
205 books — 95 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,559 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsMicrobe Hunters by Paul de KruifThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
History of Science
485 books — 289 voters
The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfOrlando by Virginia Woolf
Best Books by Female Authors
1,364 books — 467 voters

The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Mandarins by Simone de BeauvoirThe Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,282 books — 5,246 voters
The Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind by Eric R. KandelEssentials of Neural Science and Behavior by Eric R. KandelThe Age of Insight by Eric R. KandelIn Search of Memory by Eric R. KandelConsciousness by Christof Koch
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 492 voters
The Strangest Man by Graham FarmeloIn Search of Memory by Eric R. KandelMadness and Memory by Stanley B. PrusinerDarwin's Armada by Iain McCalman
Best Biographies
1,675 books — 2,951 voters

The Double Helix by James D. WatsonMadness and Memory by Stanley B. PrusinerMicrobe Hunters by Paul de KruifThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Wonderful Books of Science and Medicine
180 books — 85 voters
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
Genetics for Non-Scientists
65 books — 56 voters

The Age of Insight by Eric R. Kandel
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
190 books — 76 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,750 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classics Library
634 books — 522 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiBlindness by José SaramagoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Magical Realism
442 books — 639 voters

A Greater Monster by David David Katzman
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
560 books — 544 voters
A Greater Monster by David David Katzman
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
305 books — 550 voters

A Greater Monster by David David Katzman
Best Indie Books/Authors
2,040 books — 1,891 voters
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,160 books — 431 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Best Short Story Collections
1,552 books — 856 voters
The Rebel by Albert CamusThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusA Happy Death by Albert Camus
All about Camus
43 books — 78 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinWhat Evolution Is by Ernst W. MayrEvolution by Michael RuseLife from an RNA World by Michael YarusRelics of Eden by Daniel J. Fairbanks
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters