A Week to be Wicked by Tessa DareThe Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnWhat I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne LongYours Until Dawn by Teresa MedeirosAny Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
Best Character Driven Historical Romance
175 books — 105 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
239 books — 397 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
331 books — 688 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
1,220 books — 1,246 voters