The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'BrianThe Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Best Historical Fiction
7,274 books — 25,467 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Stand by Stephen        KingA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,698 books — 25,900 voters

Crazy Like Us by Ethan WattersTwenty Years at Hull House by Jane AddamsCapital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyAmerican Psychosis by E. Fuller TorreyHigh Rise Stories by Audrey Petty
Brown School
64 books — 7 voters