Shōgun by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
7,807 books — 26,124 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,937 books — 26,314 voters

As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Southern Gothic Literature
343 books — 507 voters
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Genetics in Science Fiction
222 books — 182 voters