Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 383 voters

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen  KingMoonshine, Vol. 1 by Brian AzzarelloThe Red Church by Scott NicholsonThe Farm by Scott NicholsonRevelator by Daryl Gregory
Appalachian Horror
48 books — 19 voters
Let's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim CooperExile on Main Street by Bill JanovitzDummy by R.J. WheatonDusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes
33⅓
139 books — 67 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
602 books — 204 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Radiolab Suggested Readings
180 books — 240 voters
The Blade Itself by Joe AbercrombiePrince of Thorns by Mark  LawrenceA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinLast Argument of Kings by Joe AbercrombieBefore They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
The Grimdarks
479 books — 1,173 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Books with Unreliable Narrators
501 books — 489 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
337 books — 501 voters