Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
236 books — 402 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
1,770 books — 1,080 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)
6,263 books — 8,161 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
514 books — 626 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
3,174 books — 3,064 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
598 books — 2,063 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!
581 books — 522 voters