Fast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserArea 51 by Annie JacobsenSeabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandThe Barbarous Years by Bernard BailynThe Pecan by James McWilliams
Americana (
200 books — 3 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderBabbitt by Sinclair LewisMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Novels of the American Midwest
341 books — 158 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryHoles by Louis SacharAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy11/22/63 by Stephen  KingIsaac's Storm by Erik Larson
Books Set in Texas
960 books — 332 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Crucible by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston GroomThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonJumanji by Chris Van AllsburgMary Poppins by P.L. Travers
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,221 books — 6,123 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 480 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBrewing Love With the Bookworm by Deanna LillyFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Novels About Small-Town Life
283 books — 129 voters