The Way We Live Now by Anthony TrollopeAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyBleak House by Charles DickensWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters

The Scourging Angel by Benedict GummerThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Best Medieval History Books
814 books — 325 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkePerfume by Patrick Süskind
World Fantasy Award Winners
57 books — 274 voters

North and South by John JakesLove and War by John JakesThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Family Saga Novels
817 books — 858 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellScoop by Evelyn WaughVile Bodies by Evelyn WaughBrighton Rock by Graham Greene
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,254 voters

Out of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,758 books — 1,637 voters
A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethThe Age of Kali by William Dalrymple
Books Set in India
504 books — 414 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Literary Mysteries
2,551 books — 4,597 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Best Books Ever
76,192 books — 283,366 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsBleak House by Charles DickensVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Victorian Novels
214 books — 507 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  KingGhost Story by Peter StraubInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Best Horror Novels
1,987 books — 5,447 voters

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan CooperHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Series
3,361 books — 9,439 voters
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Worst Books of All Time
8,105 books — 19,874 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryKatherine by Anya Seton
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,585 voters