Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 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
1,382 books — 1,511 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
714 books — 1,361 voters
As Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersThe Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueThe Birth House by Ami McKayA Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
1918 Flu Pandemic
95 books — 60 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksSomewhere in France by Jennifer RobsonRegeneration by Pat BarkerA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
WWI Historic Fiction
301 books — 85 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinThe Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer VanderbesMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline WinspearThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Heroines in Britain during WW1 & WW2
104 books — 55 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
544 books — 392 voters

Blackout by Connie WillisAll Clear by Connie WillisGood Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle MagorianThe Light Years by Elizabeth Jane HowardThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
World War II England
484 books — 198 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Family Sagas
633 books — 676 voters

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Godfather by Mario PuzoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Family Saga Novels
846 books — 866 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Children's Book by A.S. ByattBrooklyn by Colm TóibínThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersSummertime by J.M. Coetzee
Man Booker 2009 - Longlist
12 books — 30 voters


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