Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by John (7 Lists)



The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanNight by Elie WieselLife of Pi by Yann MartelSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Survival Stories
1,153 books — 1,606 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareOedipus Rex by SophoclesMillennium Approaches by Tony KushnerA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Best Plays Ever
853 books — 1,129 voters

Die Physiker by Friedrich DürrenmattAdventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui by Rafael Sánchez FerlosioCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,586 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraUlysses by James Joyce
Best Books Ever
76,154 books — 283,111 voters
The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyBlindness by José SaramagoThe Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,668 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldUlysses by James Joyce
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,790 voters