Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul TherouxGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordEmperor of China by Kangxi
Best Books About China
747 books — 587 voters
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 3 by Cao XueqinMonkey by Wu Cheng'enThe Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterScience and Civilisation in China, Volume 2 by Joseph NeedhamEmperor of China by Kangxi
Best books to read about China
173 books — 106 voters

The Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisThe Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
Best Historical Mystery
2,143 books — 4,602 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Swan Thieves by Elizabeth KostovaThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
You Want to Read in 2010
1,079 books — 1,974 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,886 books — 49,785 voters

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Alienist by Caleb CarrCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery
371 books — 307 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Biographic Fiction
733 books — 304 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoNiccolò Rising by Dorothy DunnettOrlando by Virginia WoolfI, Claudius by Robert GravesAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Best Historical Fiction
7,534 books — 25,741 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,079 books — 623 voters