Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyRoman Blood by Steven SaylorThe Trail to Buddha's Mirror by Don WinslowFearless Fourteen by Janet EvanovichThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,184 books — 2,275 voters
The October Country by Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingA Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Best Books To Read In Autumn
870 books — 510 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Odyssey by HomerLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Required Reading in High School
808 books — 1,273 voters
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'AulaireΟι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας by Roberto CalassoMythology by Edith HamiltonThe Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-HollandD'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
Best Books About Mythology
1,390 books — 2,211 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleΟι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας by Roberto Calasso
Trippy Books
830 books — 892 voters
The Dying Earth by Jack VanceA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinLean Times in Lankhmar by Fritz LeiberThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Best Fantasy Books
1,679 books — 2,022 voters

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Most Obvious Tolkien Imitators
51 books — 218 voters
The Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterThe Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Best Novels About Telepaths
203 books — 132 voters

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken KeseyA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books You Can't Live Without
1,652 books — 1,182 voters
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken KeseyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Odyssey by Homer
Best Books Ever
74,931 books — 277,880 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainThe Best of Damon Runyon by Damon Runyon
Books To Read Before I Die
145 books — 109 voters
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. HowardElric of Melniboné by Michael MoorcockWitch World by Andre NortonA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,037 books — 11,614 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe BFG by Roald Dahl
Best Read-Aloud Chapter Books
1,173 books — 1,480 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Worm Ouroboros by E.R. EddisonThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord DunsanyThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy Classics
298 books — 572 voters

The Way It Spozed to Be by Jack HerndonHow to Survive in Your Native Land by Jack HerndonNotes from a Schoolteacher by James HerndonPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireUp the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Books for Teachers/Educators
780 books — 616 voters
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Confessions of Nat Turner by William StyronThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Best Southern Books
816 books — 738 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe Final Solution by Michael ChabonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Detective Fiction
1,177 books — 1,074 voters
Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceDracula by Bram StokerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerRed as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer by Tanith Lee
Vampire books...
538 books — 674 voters

American Supernatural Tales by S.T. JoshiAncestral Shadows by Russell KirkIn a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner’Salem’s Lot by Stephen        KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Best Supernatural Fiction
982 books — 472 voters
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftTales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Jim TurnerAncient Exhumations +2 by Stanley C. SargentHouse of the Toad by Richard L. TierneyCthulhu 2000 by Jim Turner
Best of the Cthulhu Mythos
249 books — 140 voters

Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,250 voters
Bridge of Birds by Barry HughartThe Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry HughartWallet of Kai Lung by Ernest BramahThe Middle Kingdom by David WingroveThe Jade Enchantress by E. Hoffmann Price
Chinese and Japanese Fantasy
308 books — 436 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeStardust by Neil GaimanThe Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel KayRed as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer by Tanith Lee
Five Star Fantasy Books
1,805 books — 2,163 voters
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,416 books — 2,284 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,548 voters
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
510 books — 2,273 voters

Hitler the Cat Goes West by Robert G. PielkeSince You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash by Dixie CashEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussTie Me Up, Tie Me Down by Melanie GeorgeThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré
Best Book Titles
11,300 books — 7,572 voters
Christy by Catherine MarshallThe Year the Lights Came on by Terry KayDeliverance by James DickeyCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Books Set in Appalachia
793 books — 837 voters

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseThe Golf Omnibus by P.G. WodehouseHow Right You Are, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseJeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
Best P.G. Wodehouse
106 books — 144 voters
The Green Mile by Stephen        KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen        KingWhite Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief by Donald GoinesBlue Rage, Black Redemption by Stanley Tookie Williams
Prison Books
524 books — 250 voters