My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
588 books — 1,241 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Black Echo by Michael    ConnellyThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythIn the Woods by Tana FrenchEye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Edgar Award Winners
124 books — 202 voters

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim LessingDie Physiker by Friedrich DürrenmattThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaDer Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Books we read in a German Gymnasium
150 books — 79 voters
Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaGone Girl by Gillian FlynnDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbOn Her Watch by Melinda Leigh
Psychological Thrillers
458 books — 635 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Literary Mysteries
2,551 books — 4,598 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioNinth House by Leigh BardugoBabel by R.F. KuangThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Dark Academia
363 books — 1,492 voters