The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Booklist Century: 100 Books, 100 Years
100 books — 12 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Let's rank Time's Top 100 Novels
100 books — 29 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Literary Mysteries
2,646 books — 4,804 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Sweater Weather Reading
102 books — 33 voters

Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna LindseyFires of Winter by Johanna LindseySecret Fire by Johanna Lindsey
Best Bodice Ripper Romances
298 books — 631 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,351 books — 9,352 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOutlander by Diana Gabaldon11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,998 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneDangerous by Amanda Quick
Best Love Stories
5,227 books — 9,729 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,958 books — 26,327 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberFingersmith by Sarah Waters
Best Historical Fiction
7,819 books — 26,124 voters
Outlander by Diana GabaldonReplay by Ken GrimwoodTime and Again by Jack Finney11/22/63 by Stephen  King
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,140 books — 5,396 voters