When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiDark Matter by Blake CrouchEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireThe Trespasser by Tana FrenchThe Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Best Books of 2016
1,827 books — 2,780 voters
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-WilliamsIn an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuireMiracle Creek by Angie  KimRecursion by Blake CrouchThe Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Best Books 2019
1,126 books — 1,312 voters

Strange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreDown Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuireHistory of Wolves by Emily FridlundSaga, Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Books of 2017
1,737 books — 3,080 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirWild Swans by Jung ChangCleopatra by Stacy SchiffA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonZealot by Reza Aslan
Best History Books
3,890 books — 3,935 voters
Circe by Madeline MillerBad Blood by John CarreyrouCalypso by David SedarisSaga, Volume 9 by Brian K. VaughanFear by Bob Woodward
Best Books of 2018
1,653 books — 2,957 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Best Books About Tudor England
625 books — 1,650 voters
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonFuriously Happy by Jenny  LawsonYou're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia DayWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha IrbyPeople I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann
Funny Women Memoirs
480 books — 1,620 voters

Grendel by John GardnerCirce by Madeline MillerGoddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. CooneySirena by Donna Jo NapoliIce by Sarah Beth Durst
Myth and Folktale Retellings
631 books — 587 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Best Historical Fiction
7,797 books — 26,113 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarThe Assyrian by Nicholas GuildThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
517 books — 431 voters
Finding Nouf by Zoë FerrarisCity of Veils by Zoë FerrarisKingdom of Strangers by Zoë FerrarisThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Middle East Fiction
437 books — 479 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Book of Air and Shadows by Michael GruberBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Stories For Book Lovers
8,451 books — 8,646 voters
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,935 books — 26,311 voters

Wasted by Marya HornbacherPerfect by Emily HalbanWintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonLife-Size by Jenefer ShuteInsatiable by Erica Rivera
Best Eating Disorder Books
463 books — 1,002 voters
The Night Watch by Sarah WatersFingersmith by Sarah WatersPages for You by Sylvia BrownriggKeeping You a Secret by Julie Anne PetersA Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,051 books — 2,687 voters

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleZodiac by Robert GraysmithFemale Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky
I Like Serial Killers
1,024 books — 1,553 voters
The Wives of Bath by Susan   SwanThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamSilk by Alessandro BariccoGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,135 books — 10,099 voters

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonLoveSick by Jake Coburn
YA Eating Disorder Fiction
168 books — 522 voters

What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë HellerRisking It All by Heather E. IngramBoy Toy by Barry LygaFlanders Point by Jacquie GordonThe Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor
Student-Teacher Affair Novels
390 books — 1,797 voters