The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Man Who Smiled by Henning MankellBefore the Frost by Henning Mankell
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
318 books — 680 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Odyssey by Homer
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,434 books — 8,419 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,599 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,443 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,684 voters
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,991 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Archivist's Story by Travis HollandExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Book Cover Art
12,376 books — 7,093 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Popular Books that Annoy You
1,016 books — 2,011 voters

Silk by Alessandro BariccoBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Quick Reads
1,065 books — 710 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,043 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Couldn't Put The Book Down
16,884 books — 16,735 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Very Favorite Books
763 books — 470 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best Books Ever
76,467 books — 284,448 voters
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters