Big Books of 2026

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How to Be Miserable by Randy J. PatersonSuperintelligence by Nick BostromThe Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de MesquitaGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Hello Internet Shelf
61 books — 21 voters
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanWhat If? by Randall MunroeQuantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott AaronsonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSuperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
Books metioned in rationally speaking podcast
118 books — 22 voters

Splintered by A.G. HowardHeartless by Marissa MeyerUnhinged by A.G. HowardAlice in Zombieland by Gena ShowalterThe Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Best Retellings of Alice in Wonderland
169 books — 590 voters
Consciousness by Susan BlackmoreMarx by Peter SingerJung by Anthony StevensThe Meaning of Life by Terry EagletonPhilosophy of Science by Samir Okasha
The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series
592 books — 140 voters

Idiot Brain by Dean BurnettHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerQuiet by Susan CainThe Brain by David EaglemanThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Explaining the Mind
151 books — 54 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Books for Post-Election Understanding
198 books — 141 voters

Banana by Dan KoeppelBananeras by Dana FrankLove in Infant Monkeys by Lydia MilletBanana Cultures by John SoluriThe Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
Bananas
184 books — 24 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
507 books — 618 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonPrimates by Jim OttavianiMy Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane GoodallRosalind Franklin by Brenda MaddoxGorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Women of Science
71 books — 14 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,096 books — 1,534 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,271 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,513 books — 3,515 voters


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