The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
701 books — 879 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
All-Time Awesome Books
11,909 books — 7,630 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryPerfume by Patrick SüskindLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of 1985
336 books — 216 voters
The Egyptian by Mika WaltariNefertiti by Michelle    MoranRiver God by Wilbur SmithThe Heretic Queen by Michelle    MoranThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
Best Egyptian Historical Fiction
194 books — 442 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,588 voters
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdyBecoming by Michelle ObamaBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahCrying in H Mart by Michelle ZaunerThe Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Popsugar 2023 #8 - A Celebrity Memoir
330 books — 224 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,377 books — 1,502 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

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenA Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Best Magical Realism: Witchy Fiction
272 books — 463 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters

Babel by R.F. KuangThe Lost Metal by Brandon SandersonNona the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Golden Enclaves by Naomi NovikBook of Night by Holly Black
Can't Wait Science Fiction/Fantasy of 2022
543 books — 1,410 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters


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