Big Books of 2026

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Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
508 books — 584 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfUlysses by James JoyceOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Single Day
141 books — 105 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskyCrash by J.G. BallardThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaEmilio's Carnival by Italo Svevo
Innovative Fiction
35 books — 9 voters
Heroides by OvidFanny Hill by John ClelandLes Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosThe Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo CasanovaMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
New York Times 50 Most Seminal Texts in Erotic Literary History
50 books — 1 voter

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
588 books — 1,241 voters
Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée ThomasThe City We Became by N.K. JemisinCry of Metal & Bone by L. PenelopeTrouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn JohnsonMaster of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
2020 Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy by African-Americans
14 books — 10 voters

The Case of the Wayward Fae by H.L. StephensThe Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo HigashinoThe Case of Jack the Nipper by H.L. StephensCloud Atlas by David MitchellFreezing by Clea Koff
Best Experimental Mysteries
25 books — 7 voters