Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Patrick (19 Lists)



Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
Best Spanking Fiction
365 books — 247 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Time and Again by Jack Finney
Best Time-Travel Novels
710 books — 432 voters

As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 893 voters
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
541 books — 389 voters

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. TrumpRage by Bob WoodwardA Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker
Best Books of 2020
1,564 books — 1,934 voters
American Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Cactus League by Emily Nemens
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
588 books — 1,241 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Vote For Your 100 Favorite Books of All Time
427 books — 30 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
PBS’s The Great American Read: List of America’s Top 100 Books
100 books — 2,378 voters

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus HeaneyPoems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
Insatiable Readers': Ireland
90 books — 5 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMoby-Dick by Herman Melville
Everyman Library Classics
174 books — 96 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,811 voters
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
2017 Books I'm Psyched About
72 books — 110 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittLittle Big Man by Thomas BergerButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Best Westerns
1,376 books — 1,501 voters
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
174 books — 91 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,791 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books Ever
76,127 books — 283,060 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPerfume by Patrick SüskindMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Iliad by Homer
Best European Literature
807 books — 304 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

All The Songs by Jean-Michel Guesdon
Best Books about The Beatles
189 books — 56 voters