In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames by David SedarisEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtNaked by David SedarisNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
From the Pages of the New Yorker
207 books — 56 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  Ritz
Best Book Titles
12,055 books — 8,421 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeIn the Miso Soup by Ryū MurakamiThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Yomiuri Prize winners
71 books — 13 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakLooking for Alaska by John GreenSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonI Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Printz Award Winners and Honor Books
129 books — 967 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,996 voters
The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
249 books — 366 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,199 books — 3,157 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
7,816 books — 26,075 voters