Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen SimonsonThe Kitchen House by Kathleen GrissomThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Best for Book Clubs
15,113 books — 19,096 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsVillette by Charlotte Brontë
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,111 voters

The Yellow House by Patricia FalveyThe Kitchen House by Kathleen GrissomThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Turn Of The Century Favorites
101 books — 75 voters
Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Great Kates
212 books — 19 voters

Gringos by Charles Portis
The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime
142 books — 67 voters
True Grit by Charles Portis
Best Westerns
1,385 books — 1,520 voters

Travels with Charley by John SteinbeckConfederates in the Attic by Tony HorwitzBlue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Favorite Travel Books
2,031 books — 3,943 voters
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,256 books — 8,064 voters

River-Horse by William Least Heat-Moon
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,142 books — 1,870 voters
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Best Sports History Books
222 books — 108 voters

The Chosen by Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokDavita's Harp by Chaim PotokThe Promise by Chaim PotokThe Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Best of Chaim Potok
19 books — 32 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,079 books — 121,931 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Best Historical Fiction
7,595 books — 25,887 voters