Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,849 books — 6,372 voters
The Alienist by Caleb CarrMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
Great Crime and Mysteries
175 books — 117 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,186 books — 28,366 voters
The Alienist by Caleb CarrMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,621 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Non Police/PI Mysteries
415 books — 49 voters
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. KingThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,213 books — 2,303 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,281 voters
The Feast of All Saints by Anne RiceTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Best Southern Literature
1,343 books — 2,573 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Best Books 1950
103 books — 41 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneFrom Here to Eternity by James  Jones
Best Books 1951
105 books — 50 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best Books 1948
84 books — 57 voters
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Best Books 1943
118 books — 46 voters

An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books 1925
61 books — 60 voters
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoThe Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Best of 1922
68 books — 61 voters

The End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Third Man by Graham GreeneOur Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 203 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,700 books — 120,584 voters

The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilloThe House of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
New Children's Classics
367 books — 484 voters
The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerSkin Tight by Carl HiaasenThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Books that Make you Laugh
3,499 books — 5,076 voters

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeThe Well of Lost Plots by Jasper FfordeThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,418 books — 2,336 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettFall of Giants by Ken Follett
Ken Follett Novels
29 books — 192 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannPolar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
Land of Ice and Snow
136 books — 68 voters
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithThe Poet by Michael    ConnellyFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Detective Fiction
1,189 books — 1,084 voters

The Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,955 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Stories For Book Lovers
8,357 books — 8,415 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters
The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,781 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
768 books — 1,294 voters
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Hotel New Hampshire by John IrvingThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Books Ever
76,544 books — 284,724 voters


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