The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Crow Trap by Ann CleevesAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
Female Detective Series
158 books — 82 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Magical Realism
442 books — 639 voters

O Terceiro Reich by Roberto BolañoThe Devil's Elixirs by E.T.A. HoffmannLa pharmacienne by EsparbecThe Penultimate Truth by Philip K. DickHauntings by Vernon Lee
Leituras de 2011 - Portugal
1,844 books — 199 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaEthan Frome by Edith WhartonExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 494 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Everyone's Read It But Me
766 books — 4,322 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 577 voters
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
New Zealand
397 books — 203 voters

An Instant in the Wind by André Brink
Best Love Stories
5,177 books — 9,637 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Banned Books 2007-2008
85 books — 201 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,685 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Books that evoke the South
480 books — 158 voters

The Bone People by Keri HulmeAmsterdam by Ian McEwanThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,987 voters
The Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best South Asian Fiction
735 books — 1,895 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,368 voters
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,877 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,434 books — 8,422 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickUbik by Philip K. DickAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,437 books — 24,677 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,182 books — 1,510 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,607 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr by Reduced Shakespeare CompanyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books Ever
76,479 books — 284,529 voters