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 — 64 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
450 books — 767 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
860 books — 525 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
7,447 books — 25,641 voters