Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar
Prison Abolition
136 books — 49 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleAda, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Smut
146 books — 108 voters

Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayCarpe Diem by Autumn CornwellThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesTender Morsels by Margo LanaganMatter by Iain M. Banks
Best Book Cover Art
12,384 books — 7,092 voters
In Youth is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather’s House by Denton WelchMaiden Voyage by Denton Welch
Best Books About China
744 books — 585 voters

David Copperfield by Charles DickensDombey and Son by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Best of Charles Dickens
109 books — 256 voters
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór LaxnessThe Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessThe Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPaper Towns by John GreenThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2009 Printz Contenders
59 books — 1,450 voters
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads
1,170 books — 1,059 voters

2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters
The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
Best Plot Twist
409 books — 652 voters

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Printz 2010
58 books — 247 voters
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2009 Newbery Contenders
75 books — 607 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books Made into Movies
1,098 books — 445 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,380 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Books that Made You Cry!
3,358 books — 7,923 voters
The Lucifer Effect by Philip G. Zimbardo
Greatest Psychology Books
794 books — 1,332 voters