The Magnolia Sword by Sherry ThomasThe Wild Orchid by Cameron DokeyDefy by Sara B. LarsonThe Warrior Maiden by Melanie DickersonSpin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Retellings of Mulan
69 books — 65 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Martian by Andy WeirOld Man's War by John ScalziThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,209 books — 8,954 voters

When the Future Comes Too Soon by Selina Siak Chin YokeThe Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin YokeMountains on Fire by Aram YardumianThe Forgotten Promise by Paula  GreenleesThe Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Historical Fiction - Southeast Asia
84 books — 94 voters
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidA Touch of Stardust by Kate AlcottAll the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana TrigianiThe Garden on Sunset by Martin TurnbullThe Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Hollywood Historical Fiction
164 books — 116 voters

The Great Alone by Kristin HannahMy Dear Hamilton by Stephanie DrayThe Romanov Empress by C.W. GortnerThe Blue by Nancy BilyeauCirce by Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction 2018
420 books — 976 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Ashford Affair by Lauren WilligHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Historical fiction: Africa
125 books — 48 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,456 books — 1,532 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,221 books — 1,702 voters