Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 396 voters
The Stories of John Cheever by John CheeverTales of the Unexpected by Roald DahlThe Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Short Stories
1,756 books — 1,044 voters

Confederates in the Attic by Tony HorwitzFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayOn Writing by Stephen        KingThe Writing Life by Annie DillardEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Best Books on Creative Life
507 books — 618 voters

Up in Honey's Room by Elmore LeonardThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
Best Male Character
3,165 books — 2,923 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSacred Games by Vikram ChandraAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages
106 books — 99 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters

It by Stephen        KingPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithWorld War Z by Max Brooks’Salem’s Lot by Stephen        KingFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Monster Books!
575 books — 521 voters