The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Miniaturist by Jessie BurtonThe Coffee Trader by David LissThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenA Widow for One Year by John Irving
Books Set in Amsterdam
89 books — 72 voters

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeThe Italian by Ann RadcliffeThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza ParsonsThe Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest by Karl Friedrich Kahlert
Jane Austen: The "Horrid" Novels
11 books — 26 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 — 499 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Books Set in London
787 books — 316 voters