Born to Run by Christopher McDougallBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerConfederates in the Attic by Tony HorwitzThe Hot Zone by Richard   Preston
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,067 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane GreyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. ParkerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Detective Fiction
1,189 books — 1,084 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanL.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. HamiltonTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Vampires and Werewolves and Witches...Oh My!
1,950 books — 3,002 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingCongo by Michael CrichtonDracula by Bram StokerHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,101 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,687 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerLove Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,790 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanTwilight by Stephenie MeyerHoles by Louis Sachar
Best Young Adult Books
13,115 books — 80,193 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,842 books — 22,018 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Books Ever
76,600 books — 284,914 voters