Big Books of 2026

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



Rework by Jason Fried
The People's Library for Success
520 books — 629 voters
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Silicon Valley History
237 books — 436 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Bittersweet Endings
67 books — 27 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Most Heartbreaking
171 books — 129 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,240 books — 3,905 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Victorian London
124 books — 105 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Queen's Library: Best of the Commonwealth
743 books — 230 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoylePygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Books Set in London
787 books — 316 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane Austen
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,112 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Notable Atheist Books
543 books — 937 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Art In Books
244 books — 138 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Little Bit of Paris
173 books — 67 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Books about artists
79 books — 24 voters

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryThe Centaur by John Updike
Teachers Featured
283 books — 147 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Non-American and Non-British Plays
156 books — 67 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Evil Hospitals and Asylums
91 books — 137 voters
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Best Early Modern Plays
35 books — 24 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Medicine and Literature
1,843 books — 2,002 voters
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
498 books — 608 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Art & Artists in Fiction
929 books — 1,104 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Domestic novels
41 books — 16 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Fictional Books About Important Issues
78 books — 52 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett1984 by George Orwell
Books that make you think.
1,116 books — 1,047 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Books I Should Read, But Probably Never Will
104 books — 26 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Rory Gilmore Books Project
119 books — 43 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Rory's Book Club
173 books — 91 voters
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hardscrabble Life
408 books — 118 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Novels of Domestic Life
423 books — 139 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Fiction about Adoption
328 books — 222 voters