All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  WhitakerAll the Broken Places by John BoyneAll That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William LandayThe Frozen River by Ariel LawhonThe Winners by Fredrik Backman
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The Most Popular Mysteries on Goodreads
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Mystic River by Dennis LehaneDefending Jacob by William LandayGone Girl by Gillian FlynnBehind Closed Doors by B.A. ParisThe Good Girl by Mary Kubica
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James by Percival EverettNightwatching by Tracy  SierraDarling Girls by Sally HepworthThe Teacher by Freida McFadden
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All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William LandayGo as a River by Shelley ReadThe Covenant of Water by Abraham   VergheseThose We Thought We Knew by David    JoyThe River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Best Books of 2023
1,208 books — 1,839 voters

Look Closer by David EllisLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltThe Overnight Guest by Heather GudenkaufNotes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Best Books of 2022
1,543 books — 1,853 voters
Where the Lost Wander by Amy HarmonDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyThe Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi DaréThe Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer  Rosner
Best Books of 2020
1,564 books — 1,935 voters

More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie  GutierrezThe Lies I Tell by Julie   Clark
Best books of June, 2022
124 books — 39 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters

A Time to Kill by John GrishamMystic River by Dennis LehaneDefending Jacob by William LandayAbsolute Power by David BaldacciThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael    Connelly
Thrillers
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The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTh1rt3en by Steve CavanaghThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael    ConnellyDefending Jacob by William LandayThe Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Best Mysteries of the 21st Century
197 books — 266 voters

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui ZhangThe Diamond Eye by Kate QuinnTo Paradise by Hanya YanagiharaThe Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
Historical Fiction 2022
407 books — 431 voters
The Push by Ashley AudrainThe Rose Code by Kate QuinnThe Wife Upstairs by Rachel HawkinsThe Plot by Jean Hanff KorelitzThe Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Best Books of 2021
1,434 books — 1,624 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,912 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,905 voters

American Dirt by Jeanine CumminsA Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne FowlerThe Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer  RosnerValentine by Elizabeth WetmoreMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
585 books — 1,240 voters

American Dirt by Jeanine CumminsA Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne FowlerMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Best Books 2020
612 books — 404 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Time to Kill by John GrishamSycamore Row by John GrishamThe Reversal by Michael    ConnellyAbsolute Power by David Baldacci
Legal Thrillers
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The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly RimmerThe Last Year of the War by Susan MeissnerRecursion by Blake CrouchAn Anonymous Girl by Greer HendricksThe Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of 2019
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Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Abandoned Books
1,474 books — 1,465 voters

The Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts Jr.
WWII Historic Fiction
1,404 books — 1,526 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best Historical Fiction
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Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,019 books — 2,561 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Good Girl by Mary KubicaBehind Closed Doors by B.A. ParisThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Favourite Psychological thrillers
276 books — 193 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,841 books — 21,936 voters


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