The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books about Being Eaten
106 books — 180 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
1,422 books — 2,701 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
806 books — 856 voters
Pentimento by Lillian HellmanThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrFamily Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge
Memoirs by Women
3,522 books — 4,125 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,262 books — 12,315 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
842 books — 750 voters

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Worst Books of All Time
8,129 books — 19,915 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,160 books — 27,053 voters