The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books about Being Eaten
105 books — 179 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
1,380 books — 2,598 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
802 books — 845 voters
Pentimento by Lillian HellmanThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrFamily Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge
Memoirs by Women
3,232 books — 3,428 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,184 books — 12,252 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
836 books — 748 voters

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Worst Books of All Time
8,119 books — 19,890 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,980 books — 26,591 voters