Death on the Nile by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieFer-de-Lance by Rex StoutThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,206 books — 2,294 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,292 books — 2,253 voters

Silas Marner by George EliotKing Henry VIII by William ShakespeareThe Golden Bowl by Henry JamesCandide by VoltaireRichard III by William Shakespeare
Oxford World's Classics
257 books — 77 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonCollected Poems by James MerrillThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John DonneTennyson's Poetry by Alfred Tennyson
Best Poets
520 books — 390 voters

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. EliotPersonæ by Ezra PoundHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergCollected Poems by James MerrillLunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Modern Poetry/ Poetics List
62 books — 36 voters