The Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganThe Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Non-fiction Disaster Books
329 books — 331 voters
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,390 books — 1,995 voters

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 902 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Historical Fiction
7,876 books — 26,234 voters

Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
Travel Published in Decade: 2010s
51 books — 56 voters
Amadeus by Peter ShafferFences by August WilsonLost in Yonkers by Neil SimonDoubt, a Parable by John Patrick ShanleyThe History Boys by Alan Bennett
Tony Award for Best Play / Revival
100 books — 11 voters

Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffThe Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
Counter-Lovecraft
186 books — 134 voters
Sweeney Todd by Stephen SondheimThe History Boys by Alan BennettSix Degrees of Separation by John GuareCompany by Stephen Sondheim
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Chinese and Japanese Fantasy
315 books — 440 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,526 books — 123,851 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le GuinMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokBank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
Best Books 1972
235 books — 68 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovCarrie by Stephen  King
One Name as a Title
1,130 books — 201 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quirky Southern Fiction
982 books — 1,929 voters
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books 1966
159 books — 75 voters

Fuzzy Nation by John ScalziLove Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,121 books — 9,066 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Shipping News by Annie Proulx
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,877 books — 18,584 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,822 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Russian Literature
522 books — 2,300 voters

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster BujoldThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Briar King by Greg Keyes
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,121 books — 10,086 voters