A Week to be Wicked by Tessa DareThe Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnWhat I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne LongAny Duchess Will Do by Tessa DareYours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros
Best Character Driven Historical Romance
174 books — 104 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Murder Most Cold
234 books — 396 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Snowman by Jo NesbøThe Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
317 books — 679 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters