The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Best Books of 2016
1,827 books — 2,781 voters

Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins
Best Historical Mystery
2,273 books — 4,763 voters
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna LandvikThe Secret Keeper by Kate MortonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerP.S. I Love You by Cecelia AhernDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Best Women's Fiction Novels
2,134 books — 1,692 voters

The Gilded Hour by Sara DonatiAll the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana TrigianiA God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Historical Fiction 2015
416 books — 2,121 voters
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela AidanDuty and Desire by Pamela AidanThese Three Remain by Pamela AidanMr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda BerdollDarcy & Elizabeth by Linda Berdoll
Best Jane Austen FanFiction
696 books — 1,001 voters

Wideacre by Philippa GregoryThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,889 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,096 books — 5,818 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best for Book Clubs
15,272 books — 19,458 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Road to Avalon by Joan WolfGuinevere by Sharan NewmanGuenevere, Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind MilesChild of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley
Best Arthurian Fiction
482 books — 1,450 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerWater for Elephants by Sara GruenAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
13,032 books — 8,507 voters

Son of the Shadows by Juliet MarillierThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Best Female Lead Characters
4,895 books — 5,937 voters
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlancFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,267 books — 8,083 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,348 books — 4,646 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,492 books — 123,674 voters

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Best Time-Travel Romance Novels
1,051 books — 4,234 voters
Into the Wilderness by Sara DonatiDragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Best Historical Fiction
7,857 books — 26,169 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,303 books — 11,852 voters