A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Blade Itself by Joe AbercrombieKushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyThe Black Prism by Brent WeeksThe Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,305 books — 25,956 voters

The Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberThe Wolf Border by Sarah HallThe American Lover by Rose Tremain
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters

She Rises by Kate WorsleyThe Secret Knowledge by Andrew CrumeyThe Aftermath by Rhidian BrookHarvest by Jim CraceThe Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,719 books — 6,883 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard NordhoffThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,700 books — 3,644 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,837 books — 26,084 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesRoman Blood by Steven Saylorسینوهه by Mika WaltariThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Historical Fiction
7,535 books — 25,742 voters