The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,673 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineOld Man's War by John ScalziThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,203 books — 8,942 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOliver Twist by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Well-Educated Mind
146 books — 17 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëEmma by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenHecuba by Euripides
Women in White
491 books — 106 voters

The Happiness Project by Gretchen RubinThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsMWF Seeking BFF by Rachel BertscheSkipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage
A Year in the Life
198 books — 318 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerSkin by April LindnerAuntie Mame by Patrick DennisThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDIY U by Anya Kamenetz
Hand and Glove
1,381 books — 147 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne PorterCrazy U by Andrew   FergusonAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Feet!
518 books — 310 voters
Columbine by Dave CullenJohn Adams by David McCulloughQuiet by Susan CainFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
3,999 books — 2,012 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Stand by Stephen        KingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Giver by Lois LowryAlas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,243 books — 3,409 voters
World War Z by Max BrooksThe Zombie Survival Guide by Max BrooksPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithPaul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher
Zombies!
1,663 books — 4,318 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. HowardKull by Robert E. HowardSolomon Kane by Robert E. HowardJirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore
Recommended by George R. R. Martin
28 books — 73 voters
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
The #1 Book Everyone Must Read
3 books — 3 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin1776 by David McCulloughThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankTruman by David McCullough
Best History Books
3,693 books — 3,730 voters

The Holy Bible by Anonymousالقرآن الكريم by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Republic by PlatoThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
1,480 books — 5,282 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best American History Books
2,117 books — 2,486 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinNumber the Stars by Lois LowryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Young Adult Books
13,118 books — 80,161 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George OrwellRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,417 books — 119,715 voters

John Adams by David McCullough
Best Biographies
1,658 books — 2,942 voters