Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierI, Claudius by Robert GravesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,447 books — 25,642 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,318 books — 2,271 voters

I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
Books with Italian location
407 books — 226 voters
The Night Watch by Sarah WatersThe Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Contemporary British Novels
507 books — 389 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonFour Quartets by T.S. EliotTitus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
822 books — 1,145 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,849 books — 121,110 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
986 books — 2,578 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters