The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'BrianThe Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Best Historical Fiction
7,572 books — 25,846 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
3,854 books — 26,116 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