Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Read Between The Lines (115 Lists)



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,350 books — 1,470 voters
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Saddest Books
491 books — 721 voters

The Birds by Daphne du MaurierAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryHeidi by Johanna SpyriI Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I Saw the Movie First
184 books — 99 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,923 books — 2,066 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
65 books to read in your twenties
65 books — 31 voters
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Victorian Novels
213 books — 506 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. Hawking
Cosmology
215 books — 189 voters
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneLooking for Alaska by John Green
Not So Happily-Ever-After
779 books — 1,063 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,515 voters
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Quick Reads
1,061 books — 716 voters

Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 922 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,134 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
519 books — 389 voters

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Books With Nerdy, Geeky, or Genius Heroes and Heroines
1,145 books — 1,046 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,120 books — 1,847 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAll Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Books that Changed My World View
467 books — 411 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Men and Mental Illness
111 books — 41 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespearePygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Best British and Irish Plays
134 books — 73 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Bizarre books
665 books — 415 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Trippy Books
842 books — 896 voters
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Fiction Books About Writers
294 books — 170 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
I Would If I Could
110 books — 43 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Books about Books and Authors
210 books — 137 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLord of the Flies by William Golding
The 50 greatest British writers since 1945
152 books — 92 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
books for your existential crisis
164 books — 100 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best "REAL" Psychological Fiction
144 books — 240 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Best Existential Fiction
447 books — 765 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
259 books — 771 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Books About College Life
747 books — 267 voters