Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Heidi (54 Lists)



The Beach House by Rochelle Alers
Popsugar 2023 #3 - A Book About a Vacation
185 books — 181 voters
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne AllenBlack Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne AllenBlack Girls Must Have It All by Jayne AllenThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen KingBlack Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
Popsugar 2023 #7 - A Book with "Girl" in the Title
828 books — 210 voters

Scenes from My Life by Michael K. WilliamsFinding Me by Viola DavisA Promised Land by Barack ObamaThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XJust as I Am by Cicely Tyson
Popsugar 2023 #8 - A Celebrity Memoir
330 books — 225 voters
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Popsugar 2023 #4 - A Book By a First Time Author
317 books — 219 voters

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke EmeziDominicana by Angie Cruz
Popsugar 2023 #6 - A Book About a Forbidden Romance
201 books — 198 voters
Finding Me by Viola Davis
2022 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
111 books — 16 voters

A Violent Woman by Ayana MathisMiss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
Books by Black Authors 2022
164 books — 55 voters
Akata Woman by Nnedi OkoraforGoliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
2022 Fantasy and Science Fiction Books by Black Authors
61 books — 36 voters

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Afrofuturism
199 books — 135 voters
The Kindest Lie by Nancy JohnsonHoney Girl by Morgan RogersOpen Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
2021 Debuts - Adult
272 books — 483 voters

Memorial Drive by Natasha TretheweyWow, No Thank You. by Samantha IrbyMemorial by Bryan WashingtonI Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael ArceneauxThe Address Book by Deirdre Mask
Popsugar 2021 #39 - A Book Everyone Seems to have Read but You
177 books — 206 voters
Luster by Raven LeilaniThe Silent Patient by Alex MichaelidesGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoGet a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia HibbertWhat Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis
Popsugar 2021 #38 - A Book About Art or an Artist
327 books — 261 voters

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Popsugar 2021 #36 - A Book with Fewer than 1000 Reviews
495 books — 164 voters
Hood Feminism by Mikki KendallPushout by Monique W. Morris
Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue
322 books — 227 voters

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha PhilyawGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Popsugar 2021 #33 - A Book Featuring Three Generations
218 books — 251 voters
Queenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsQueen Sugar by Natalie BaszileQuicksand by Nella LarsenQ by Quincy JonesQuincy Jones -- Q's Jook Joint by Quincy Jones
Popsugar 2021 #32 - A Book Whose Title Starts with Q, X, or Z
420 books — 244 voters

Is You Okay? by Glozell GreenWell, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca RamseyThe Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau BellI'm Judging You by Luvvie AjayiProfessional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Popsugar 2021 #31 A Book by a Blogger, Vlogger, YouTuber, or Other Online Personality
289 books — 277 voters
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa ColeOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Popsugar 2021 #30 - A Book Set Somewhere You'd Like to Visit in 2021
129 books — 105 voters

Housegirl by Michael DonkorThe Book of Echoes by Rosanna AmakaThe Returnees by Elizabeth OkohAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Popsugar 2021 #29 - A Book Set in Multiple Countries
364 books — 231 voters
Mama Day by Gloria NaylorWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez11/22/63 by Stephen King
Popsugar 2021 #28 - A Magical Realism Book
160 books — 218 voters

It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
Popsugar 2021 #27 - A Book about Do-Overs or Fresh Starts
215 books — 265 voters
What's Mine and Yours by Naima CosterThe Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Popsugar 2021 #26 - A Book with an Oxymoron in the Title
252 books — 259 voters

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon JohnsonSex Chronicles by ZaneReckless by Selena MontgomeryHidden Sins by Selena MontgomerySecrets and Lies by Selena Montgomery
Popsugar 2021 #25 - A Book that was Published Anonymously
88 books — 148 voters
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf RumHomeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarAmal Unbound by Aisha SaeedThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif AbdurraqibConditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
Popsugar 2021 #24 - A Book By a Muslim American Author
131 books — 240 voters

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Popsugar 2021 #23 - A book with Something Broken on the Cover
188 books — 204 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLord of the Flies by William GoldingLife of Pi by Yann MartelAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Popsugar 2021 #22 - A Book Set Mostly or Entirely Outdoors
392 books — 321 voters

The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Popsugar 2021 #21 - A Genre Hybrid
181 books — 232 voters
Pushout by Monique W. MorrisThey Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-RogersBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCaste by Isabel WilkersonWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Popsugar 2021 #20 - A Book on a Black Lives Matter Reading List
143 books — 198 voters


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