The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Fiction
7,486 books — 25,677 voters
Ship Breaker by Paolo BacigalupiPhase One by Rose Wynters
Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
458 books — 1,293 voters

Generation X by Douglas CouplandThe Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1 by Peter BaggeNeuromancer by William Gibson
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters
The Analects by ConfuciusThe Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk
Best Holy Books
270 books — 535 voters

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Ending
8,110 books — 6,126 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownI Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite No-Such Stories by Tomi UngererMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Best Children's Books
5,329 books — 6,712 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Sea by John BanvilleI Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane CrosleyThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Disappointing Books
2,730 books — 4,599 voters
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,241 books — 8,068 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteFatal Vision by Joe McGinnissRemembering Satan by Lawrence WrightOnce Upon a Time by Harry N. MacLean
True Crime
732 books — 625 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareMoose Murders by Arthur Bicknell
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

My Life and Hard Times by James ThurberMountain Man Dance Moves by McSweeney'sWithout Feathers by Woody AllenGetting Even by Woody AllenSide Effects by Woody Allen
Best Humorous Books
4,350 books — 7,960 voters
Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phan... by Luigi SerafiniThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Weirdest Books Ever
1,185 books — 1,192 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Frank MillerBone by Jeff SmithFun Home by Alison BechdelGhost World by Daniel Clowes
Best Graphic Novels
3,452 books — 6,772 voters
Kilter by John  GouldThe Stories of John Cheever by John CheeverThe Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardKnockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Collections of Short Stories
2,896 books — 2,041 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,098 voters
Zeroville by Steve EricksonLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim ShepardOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Best Books of 2007
1,115 books — 993 voters

Collected Poems by Philip LarkinWalking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz WrightDisfortune by Joe WenderothA Book Of Luminous Things by Czesław MiłoszCollected Poems of Donald Justice by Donald Justice
Best Poetry Books
2,996 books — 2,447 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensLetter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Notable Atheist Books
556 books — 955 voters

Cloud Atlas by David  MitchellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,370 voters
The Chocolate War by Robert CormierThe Slave Dancer by Paula FoxI Am the Cheese by Robert CormierA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Young Adult Books
13,144 books — 80,216 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,337 books — 15,790 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
76,927 books — 286,229 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,550 books — 24,853 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckMichelle Remembers by Michelle SmithThe Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,873 voters