The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,417 books — 16,262 voters
Flags of Our Fathers by James D. BradleyThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienGeneration Kill by Evan Wright
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
450 books — 609 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by Virgil
Best Trojan War Retellings
96 books — 139 voters
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyStiff by Mary RoachSpook by Mary RoachThe American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica MitfordGoatman by J. Nathan Couch
Cult of Weird Book Club
33 books — 11 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best History Books
3,896 books — 3,953 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakMatilda by Roald DahlLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottOn Writing by Stephen  King
Books about Books
1,390 books — 1,520 voters

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Best Children's Books
5,344 books — 6,932 voters
Eye of the Needle by Ken FollettWar and Remembrance by Herman WoukSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe Winds of War by Herman Wouk
World War II Fiction
1,430 books — 2,061 voters

Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,313 books — 1,439 voters