The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHaleThe Feathered Bone by Julie CantrellThe Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen LoigmanThe Girls by Emma ClineMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
330 books — 701 voters
Seeking Mansfield by Kate  WatsonTempestuous by Kim AskewFor Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana PeterfreundProm & Prejudice by Elizabeth EulbergAcross a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund
Modern reworkings of Classic Novels
113 books — 92 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPurge by Sofi OksanenThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
A year of reading the world
277 books — 51 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,084 books — 973 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy TanThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
The Female Relative Phenomenon
558 books — 133 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,359 books — 2,195 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
735 books — 1,895 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,750 voters