The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonaldA Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonaldFer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,293 books — 2,526 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters

From Time to Time by Jack FinneyAnnals of the Time Patrol by Poul Anderson
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,145 books — 5,400 voters
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Best Heroic Fantasy
725 books — 1,387 voters

The Original I Ching Oracle by Rudolf RitsemaThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Numerology of the I Ching by Taoist Master Alfred HuangTao Te Ching by Lao TzuBeowulf by Unknown
Deserted Island Shelf
56 books — 23 voters
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellChariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken
Most Influential Books
137 books — 99 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
749 books — 1,004 voters
All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLancelot by Walker PercyCadillac Jukebox by James Lee BurkeThe Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
Louisiana Fiction
195 books — 157 voters

Batman by Frank MillerWatchmen by Alan             MooreThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan             MooreKingdom Come by Mark Waid
Best Superhero Graphic Novels
635 books — 437 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe Stand by Stephen  KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,287 books — 3,451 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,579 books — 18,686 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceDune by Frank HerbertGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,100 books — 10,891 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Hamlet by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,376 books — 2,593 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books Ever
78,016 books — 290,968 voters

Armor by John SteakleyThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburySnow Crash by Neal StephensonFoundation by Isaac Asimov
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,700 books — 25,566 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWizard's First Rule by Terry GoodkindStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Worst Books of All Time
8,110 books — 19,888 voters

Aztec by Gary JenningsShōgun by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
7,843 books — 26,148 voters