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The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettCheckmate by Dorothy DunnettNiccolò Rising by Dorothy DunnettThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat BarkerJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Best Historical Fiction
7,919 books — 26,339 voters
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
Favorite Historical Romance Novels
3,466 books — 6,104 voters

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip GourevitchThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksEndurance by Alfred LansingThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral... by Julian JaynesThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,266 books — 8,149 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,174 books — 1,116 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,770 voters
The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Best Young Adult Books
13,218 books — 80,481 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books Ever
78,325 books — 292,050 voters
The Worst Books of All Time
8,120 books — 19,897 voters