Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Osiris Oliphant (1274 Lists)



Round England in an Eight Pound Car by Terence HorsleyOrnamental Coffers by Ewald BergerThis Time Is Different by Carmen M. ReinhartJonang by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro TayeEight Obscene Plays from the French Erotic Theatre of the 18t... by John Franceschina
Eight Is Great
443 books — 35 voters
Crystal Mesh by Alicia MundyMedical Holocausts by William BrennanPrescription for Profits by Linda MarsaTransactions of the Antiseptic Club by Albert AbramsThe Great White Hoax by Robert E. Catalano
Anti-Medicine
81 books — 18 voters

How to Commit a Murder by Danny AhearnCheapjack by Philip AllinghamTales of the Ex-Tanks by Clarence Louis CullenDan Burley's Jive by Dan BurleyDust, Dope and Sawdust by Paul Carew
•One Horse Open Slang
120 books — 5 voters
The Copan Sculpture Museum by Barbara W. FashMale Sexual Armor by Patrick SuraciCopy Boy by Josef BergerHooky Cop Saga by E.R. HartsogThe St. Andrews Sarcophagus by Sally M. Foster
Copy Cop
256 books — 9 voters

Hydraulic Musical Automata in Italian Villas and Other Ingeni... by Patrizio BarbieriSonoluminescence by F. Ronald YoungSound Symbolism by Gnatchuk HannaDo They Sound Like Bells or Like Howling Wolves? by Gerald Florian MessnerThe Much-at-Once by Bruce W. Wilshire
Captain Earhole
176 books — 4 voters
Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves by Julie WoskThe Poetry of the Self-Taught by Julie PrandiA History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 1 by Julie ColemanA History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 2 by Julie ColemanA History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 3 by Julie Coleman
Julie, Julie, Julie
346 books — 30 voters

Jack Kennedy and the Nauru Intelligence by Max C. NormanTRANCE-formation of America by Cathy O'BrienMatrix III, Volume 1 by Valdamar ValerianAm I Insane by Dan AshwanderThe Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay
Mind Control
102 books — 35 voters
A Match Made In Space by Replica booksThe Spaceman of Ocean Beach, Vol. Two by Clint CarySpace Bastards by Derby O'DonnellOut of This World! Jewelry in the Space Age Exhibition Catalogue by Elyse Zorn KarlinThe theory of laminated spacetime by Barbara Dewey
The Only Country Western Troubadour In "Space"
314 books — 8 voters

Junior Bonner by Paul W. FairmanThe Man Who Left Well Enough by Mark McShaneJackson County Jail by Sam StewartGoldlust by Albert Augustus Jr.Superstar by Barry Mazer
•Mork Market Mindybacks
100 books — 2 voters
Come and Go Mad by Gene JanesImages of the Journey in Dante's Divine Comedy by Charles H. TaylorFlesh Becomes Word by David DawsonComets and the Horns of Moses by Laura Knight-JadczykLocos by Felipe Alfau
Becomedy Overcomet
199 books — 4 voters

Uncle Sam's Letters on Phrenology to His Millions of Friends ... by Warren BurtonThe Rogue Aunt by John Newton ChanceUncle Aethelred by W.S. HowardU.S.A., Uncle Sam’s Abscess; Or, hell upon earth for U.S. by William JarmanThe Repair of Uncle Toe by Kay Chorao
Aunts and Uncles
547 books — 41 voters
Men, Women and Rattlesnakes by Franklin P. Collier Jr.The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern by Nicholas OldeSnaggletooth by Selwyn JepsonVice Versa by Jack WoodfordThe Man Who Asked Why by Jessica Ryan
•Confused Old Books That Think Everyone Is Their Mom
112 books — 5 voters

Unica Zürn by Unica ZürnCluck! by Jon-Stephen FinkShadows of a hand by Victor HugoErnst Fuchs by Ernst FuchsThe Sublime Boy by Walter de Casseres
Almost 5 Stars
96 books — 5 voters
The Voice of the Delta by Robert SacréThe Dwarfs of Arthurian Romance and Celtic tradition by Vernon J. HarwardChild Murderess and Dead Child Traditions by Anne O'ConnorAtlantean traditions in ancient Britain by Anthony RobertsEncyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists by Paul T. Keyser
"Tradition"
283 books — 9 voters

Artaud's Metamorphosis by Jay MurphyDescent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerA Final Companion To Books From The Simpsons by Olivier LebrunMythology of the Soul by H.G. BaynesA Shelter for Bells by Hans Jürgen von der Wense
Until You Can't Tell Right "From" Wrong
898 books — 20 voters
That Which is Caesar's by H.G. WoodleyThe Culture of Samizdat by Josephine Von ZitzewitzDeadly Dr Freud by Paul ScagnelliThe Whistle Punk of Camp 15 by Glen RoundsThe Cobra Goddess & the Chaos Serpent by Lesley Jackson
•Old Hierarchical Telegram Almanacks
99 books — 1 voter

Ye Vampyres! a Legend of the National Betting-Ring, Showing W... by SpectreEasy Money by Bertram AtkeyCustomers' Man by Boyden SparkesThe Promised Isle by Laurids BruunThe Spenders by Harry Leon Wilson
Historical Financial Fiction
57 books — 5 voters
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos TutuolaThe Story of the Drinking Horn by Vivian EttingFull and By by Cameron RogersThe new Wolf in chef's clothing; by Robert H LoebThe Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain
Into the "Drink"
214 books — 18 voters

"Hi Hattie, I'm in the Navy Now" by Johnny VineyParty Party ; Girlfriends by Ronni SandroffGirlfriends by Richard PrinceRock Wives by Victoria BalfourMy Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
246 books — 38 voters
The Rise and Fall of Nader Shah by Willem M. FloorMadness in the Making by David LindsayVictor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic S... by Jonathan BeecherHarlequin Phoenix by Thelma NiklausWhen Will the Illuminati Crash the Stock Market? by Soul Esprit
'"Rise" And "Fall"'
214 books — 12 voters

Streamline Your Figure by Sylvia UlbackLittle People of the Earth by Gillett G. GriffinJohn Singer Sargent by Richard OrmondBaroque by Peter J. BurgardThe beauty and the hag by Lotte Motz
Fig'ments
314 books — 7 voters
Telepathy Personified by Ron SpencerFirst person plural by Richard WisemanEija-Liisa Ahtila by Taru ElfvingHow to Beat Personality Tests by Charles AlexMarcel Dzama by Jason Rosenfeld
How To Eat "Personality" Tests... And Why You Should...
299 books — 8 voters

The Remarkables by Carol Z. ClarkThe Most Remarkable Echo in the World by H.M. PartridgeColossal Bust of Washington, (in American Marble, Designed to... by A New York MerchantA Long Way From Pasadena by Brian InnesTen Years a "Boy Ketcher" by Kenneth S. Rice
The "Remarkably" Vague Historian
81 books — 5 voters
Bug House Poetry by Richard GriffinLooking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon by Rudolf KurzCOCKROACHES IN HEAD by Aodh MackyThe Ants Who Took Away Time by William KotzwinkleSpider Divination in the Cameroons by Paul Gebauer
Books with Insects or Grubs in the Title
909 books — 82 voters

The Explorers' Club by Richard T EstrinIn DeLorean's Shadow by Stephen L. ArringtonSources of Evil by Greta Van BuylaereThe Lore and Lure of Mother's Milk by T. Louisa LundellAmerican Elves by John E. Roth
"Lore" Galore
457 books — 19 voters
A Cry of Bees by Melissa HardyBird Man by Leo ValentinLady Bee's Bonnets by Jill TomlinsonMechanical Singing Bird Tabatières by Geoffrey T. MaysonBird Divination among the Tibetans by Bernhard Laufer
Birds and Bees
552 books — 43 voters

Himmlische Libes-Küsse by Quirinus KuhlmannThe Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del CastilloEvery Night the Trees Disappear by Alan Greenberg
Werner Herzog's reading
35 books — 10 voters
My Loaded Ak-47 by Cleveland S. BarrettRoaring Guns by David StatlerDr. J.H. McLean's Peace-Makers by James Henry McLeanGangsta by John DavisonThe Luminous Revolver by Tom McKeown
You Only Rent Bullets
291 books — 11 voters

Martin Schongauer by Max LehrsEarly Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books by Anne-Pascale Pouey-MounouPaper bodies by Andrea CarlinoThe Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs by Liba Waring StambollionBiographical and Descriptive Catalogue of "The Ancient Band" ... by Wella P. Anderson
A "Catalog" Of Bumps On Frogs
99 books — 8 voters
Monkey Behave by Margaret BehrensThe history of Noell's Ark gorilla show by Anna Mae NoellIvan by Katherine ApplegateThe Love of Monkeys and Apes by Dan FreemanApes and Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner
Monkey Business
357 books — 56 voters