Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Shining by Stephen  KingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books to Read for Halloween
1,200 books — 1,255 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,053 books — 2,687 voters

Cut & Run by Madeleine UrbanThe Dark Tide by Josh LanyonZero at the Bone by Jane SevilleDeath of a Pirate King by Josh LanyonFatal Shadows / A Dangerous Thing by Josh Lanyon
Best Gay Mystery
984 books — 800 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Nature Books
1,160 books — 808 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
True Crime--Well Written
400 books — 414 voters