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The Passage by Justin CroninThis World We Live In by Susan Beth PfefferThe Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth PfefferThe White Mountains by John ChristopherLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,229 books — 3,404 voters
Slights by Kaaron WarrenThe Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth
Australia's Best Speculative Fiction
92 books — 44 voters

Mistborn by Brandon SandersonSpellwright by Blake CharltonSoulless by Gail CarrigerHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingSabriel by Garth Nix
Most Interesting Magic System
2,613 books — 8,705 voters
Mieradome by Kate O'HegartyThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Monk Downstairs by Tim FarringtonThe Witching Hour by Anne Rice
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
443 books — 328 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Top 100 New Classics
262 books — 417 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,074 books — 621 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanMythology by Edith HamiltonThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Iliad by HomerThe Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Best Books About Mythology
1,390 books — 2,211 voters
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy FarmerThe Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellThe Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
Vikings
185 books — 173 voters

The Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultBull God by Roberta GellisBlack Ships by Jo Graham
Classical Fiction
73 books — 67 voters
Spellwright by Blake CharltonMommy's Black Eye by William G. Bentrim
Lesser Known Authors
3,931 books — 3,349 voters

The Hunter's Moon by O.R. MellingThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Great Celtic Fiction
326 books — 414 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,548 voters

The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellRhetorics of Fantasy by Farah MendlesohnThe Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack D. ZipesThe Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John CluteFrom the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
Myth and Fantasy Studies
98 books — 59 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistDracula by Bram StokerInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Darkest Books of All Time
1,268 books — 1,722 voters

Night Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoDracula by Bram StokerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanTitus Groan by Mervyn PeakeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Quality Dark Fiction
2,469 books — 3,218 voters
The Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,273 books — 15,405 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanBlankets by Craig ThompsonFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamDeath by Neil Gaiman
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,008 voters
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperThe Night Fairy by Laura Amy SchlitzThe Dreamer by Pam Muñoz RyanThe Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz GonzalezThe Boneshaker by Kate Milford
Newbery 2011
147 books — 548 voters

Sundiver by David BrinThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsAll the Windwracked Stars by Elizabeth BearNorstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Biological Uplift
20 books — 21 voters
Runemarks by Joanne HarrisThe Sea of Trolls by Nancy FarmerNorse Code by Greg Van EekhoutIce Land by Betsy Tobin
Norse Mythology
290 books — 404 voters

Wraeththu by Storm ConstantineMartyrs and Monsters by Robert DunbarBecoming Human by Valerie J. FreireichDynasty of Ghosts by P.L. NunnThe Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Best Covers of Fiction Novels with GLBT Themes/Main Characters
607 books — 331 voters
The Unit by Ninni HolmqvistLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenSophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,209 books — 1,244 voters

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy FarmerTroll by Johanna SinisaloNorway Home of the Trolls by Eli KetilssonSacrifice by Sharon J. Bolton
Best of the Trolls
98 books — 41 voters
Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. TepperThe Folk Keeper by Franny BillingsleyTithe by Holly BlackThe Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. MadiganIn Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
Sea Creatures
740 books — 995 voters

Possession by A.S. ByattJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeDarkfever by Karen Marie MoningFaeries by Brian FroudOutside Over There by Maurice Sendak
Books about Faery
1,115 books — 2,321 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesTallgrass by Sandra DallasStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,071 books — 1,512 voters

The Gargoyle by Andrew DavidsonThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsSybil by Flora Rheta SchreiberThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,135 books — 2,247 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanBacklash by Susan FaludiThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Feminist Books
2,484 books — 3,477 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Gentlemen's Club by Becky DueHer Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Best Feminist Fiction
1,495 books — 2,651 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Random House 100
100 books — 49 voters