A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,228 books — 8,061 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleNew Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei CodrescuFrenchmen, Desire, Good Children by John Churchill ChaseSpoiled by Tom VariscoNew Orleans Noir by Julie Smith
Best New Orleans Books
422 books — 346 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
100 books — 296 voters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Book Cover Art
12,382 books — 7,090 voters

A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
What To Read Next
20,289 books — 24,175 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,783 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDune by Frank HerbertThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books Ever
76,259 books — 283,641 voters