Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Wall Bangers!
756 books — 466 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtNight by Elie WieselFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,085 books — 1,947 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonSilence of the Grave by Arnaldur IndriðasonThe Devil's Star by Jo NesbøThree Seconds by Anders RoslundEchoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
315 books — 678 voters
Thursbitch by Alan GarnerLud-in-the-Mist by Hope MirrleesThe Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna ClarkeThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Rural Fantasy
126 books — 44 voters

Green Darkness by Anya SetonOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,944 books — 5,205 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Wicca and other Pagan-based Fiction
532 books — 975 voters

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinGood Omens by Terry PratchettA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
SF & Theology
240 books — 289 voters

Tender Morsels by Margo LanaganThe Fetch by Laura WhitcombThe Red Necklace by Sally GardnerProphecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
YA Historical Fantasy
314 books — 420 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettKatherine by Anya Seton
Best Middle Ages Books
1,220 books — 1,680 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Best South Asian Fiction
730 books — 1,889 voters

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsGrass by Sheri S. Tepper
SF Masterworks
196 books — 718 voters
The War of the Flowers by Tad WilliamsThe Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina SediaMidsummer Night by Freda WarringtonEnchantment by Orson Scott CardThe Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Modern day character meets fantasyland
181 books — 71 voters

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo LeviA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Writers who committed suicide
452 books — 286 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 492 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,382 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy BryantThe Unit by Ninni HolmqvistThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Female Man by Joanna Russ
Feminist Science Fiction Books
237 books — 409 voters

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope MirrleesThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord DunsanyThe Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline WaltonLilith by George MacDonald
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
66 books — 36 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Monster Books!
560 books — 518 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Host by Stephenie MeyerLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
This Is the End...
997 books — 1,587 voters
My Ántonia by Willa CatherWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,001 books — 1,421 voters

The Famished Road by Ben OkriThe Traitor by Michael Cisco
Highbrow Fantasy Books
416 books — 623 voters