The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
My Favorite Murder Books
83 books — 65 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
454 books — 778 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Most Messed Up
886 books — 559 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
7,988 books — 26,573 voters