Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr.The Complete Poems by Anne SextonThe Complete Poems by Hart Crane
Writers who committed suicide
455 books — 285 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe House on the Strand by Daphne du MaurierThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonaldThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Starship Book List
2,764 books — 189 voters

Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson KeyesYellow Jack by Josh RussellA Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson AlgrenStoryville by Lois BattleLouisiana Power & Light by John Dufresne
Louisiana Fiction
194 books — 156 voters
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse RayCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Environmental Books
1,072 books — 1,202 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Books I Regret Reading
2,300 books — 3,225 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Popular Books that Annoy You
1,032 books — 2,011 voters

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldOne Thousand White Women by Jim FergusThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesVernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
Wall Bangers!
754 books — 464 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe House on the Strand by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Favorite Books
14,385 books — 9,979 voters
The Fruit Palace by Charles NichollAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie LeeBy the Ionian Sea by George GissingIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Favorite Travel Books
2,021 books — 3,941 voters

The King's General by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithA Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Best Love Stories
5,173 books — 9,634 voters

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedVertigo by W.G. Sebald
Most Confusing Books you ever read?
42 books — 67 voters
The Hanging Tree by Dorothy M. JohnsonThe Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkBreakheart Pass by Alistair MacLeanA Distant Trumpet by Paul HorganThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Best Westerns
1,377 books — 1,502 voters

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 479 voters
Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline AlexanderThe Fur Person by May SartonThe Cat and the Curmudgeon by Cleveland AmoryPuss in Boots by Charles PerraultSecrets of the Cat by Barbara Holland
Great Cat Books
1,578 books — 950 voters

Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,100 voters
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric AmblerThe Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts RinehartRose by Martin Cruz Smith
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,314 books — 15,563 voters

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George SpeareThe Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. KellyThe Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman HawesHitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
The Most Deserving Newbery
116 books — 3,000 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Disappointing Books
2,735 books — 4,604 voters

Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,847 books — 10,518 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,784 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddI Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,873 voters