Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jovan (17 Lists)



Eye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,879 voters
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Forgotten Women in History
12 books — 10 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoSarum by Edward Rutherfurd
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,998 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,407 books — 14,649 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPeter the Great by Robert K. MassieGulag by Anne ApplebaumStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
Best Russian History Books
549 books — 384 voters
Spark of Life by Erich Maria RemarqueInside the Third Reich by Albert SpeerAnne Frank by Menno MetselaarThe Island on Bird Street by Uri OrlevThe Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
Well-Written Holocaust Books
890 books — 2,883 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,214 books — 5,218 voters
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Best Time-Travel Romance Novels
991 books — 4,124 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Most Interesting World
8,086 books — 4,741 voters
Two Treatises of Government by John LockeA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Gutenberg Bible by Martin DaviesThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Most Influential Books
1,479 books — 5,283 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyEvgenije Onjegin by Alexander PushkinSongs of the Serbian People by Vuk KaradžićDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
Books By Authors Of Slavic Origins
100 books — 2 voters
Two Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThree Plays by Henrik IbsenThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
108 books — 43 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Oscar Winners-Best Picture
64 books — 20 voters
The Winds of War by Herman WoukWar and Remembrance by Herman WoukThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
World War II Fiction
1,384 books — 2,019 voters

The Satyricon by PetroniusCoriolanus by William ShakespeareThe History of Rome, Books 21-30 by LivyMetamorphoses by OvidSPQR by Mary Beard
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters
Rubicon by Tom HollandThe Annals of Imperial Rome by TacitusCicero by Anthony EverittCleopatra by Stacy SchiffThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Best History Books
3,701 books — 3,733 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,509 books — 119,975 voters