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)
4,189 books — 25,737 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
1,704 books — 6,871 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
512 books — 2,276 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
3,652 books — 3,592 voters

1984 by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,987 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
7,409 books — 25,590 voters