The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books about Being Eaten
104 books — 178 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Best Southern Literature
1,348 books — 2,576 voters

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann PancakeGiven Ground by Ann PancakeLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeDeliverance by James DickeyBrighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell
Best Books Set in Appalachia
799 books — 841 voters
Pentimento by Lillian HellmanThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrFamily Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge
Memoirs by Women
3,074 books — 3,095 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,088 books — 11,777 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullersThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerWise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Books
826 books — 739 voters

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,872 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,790 books — 26,050 voters