The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 150 voters
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters

Sister-Sister by Rachel ZadokPoison City by Paul CrilleyThe Apartment by S.L. GreyApocalypse Now Now by Charlie HumanThe Space Race by Alex Latimer
South African Speculative Fiction
113 books — 27 voters
The Vampyre by John William PolidoriMathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 323 voters

The Nose by Catherine CowanOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 235 voters
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Old Curiosity Shop by Charles DickensThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëVarney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 382 voters

Cranford by Elizabeth GaskellThe Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth GaskellThe Professor by Charlotte BrontëBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleVillette by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 300 voters
No Name by Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsArmadale by Wilkie CollinsLost Sir Massingberd by James PaynLady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 396 voters

In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le FanuAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 344 voters
Star of the South by Jules VerneSylvie and Bruno by Lewis CarrollThe Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine GreenMythical Monsters by Charles GouldLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 410 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanHer Ladyship's Elephant by David Dwight WellsThe Library Window by Margaret OliphantRaffles by E.W. HornungMiss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 501 voters
Exodus by Julie BertagnaSea of Ghosts by Alan                CampbellArt of Hunting by Alan                CampbellCuttlefish by Dave FreerFloodland by Marcus Sedgwick
Drowning Towns
423 books — 60 voters

Carniepunk by Rachel CaineCircus by Ekaterina SediaPantomime by L.R.  LamThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Mysterious Madam Morpho by Delilah S. Dawson
Circus/Carnival Books
701 books — 1,082 voters
Devilskein & Dearlove by Alex    SmithCurtsies & Conspiracies by Gail CarrigerEtiquette & Espionage by Gail CarrigerBlood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis KlauseBrimstone and Marmalade by Aaron Corwin
_______ & _______
458 books — 24 voters

The Osiris Curse by Paul CrilleyThe Lazarus Machine by Paul CrilleyThe Shadow of Evil by Tim Pigott-SmithThe Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy SpringerThe Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan by Nancy Springer
YA & Middle Grade Sherlock Holmes
174 books — 111 voters
Unwept by Tracy HickmanLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldBehemoth by Scott WesterfeldGoliath by Scott Westerfeld
YA Fiction set in the 1910s
135 books — 78 voters

How to Make a Triffid by Kelly LagorBrimstone and Marmalade by Aaron CorwinCome Back to the Sea by Jason VanheeTriquetra by Kirstyn McDermottThe Ink Readers of Doi Saket by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Short Fiction of tor.com
404 books — 238 voters
Star Cursed by Jessica SpotswoodEvolution Expects by Jonathan GreenThe Asylum by John HarwoodWildthorn by Jane Eagland
Victorian Asylums
59 books — 76 voters

Mortal Engines by Philip ReeveUnnatural History by Jonathan GreenThe Unnaturalists by Tiffany TrentThe Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice HoffmanThe Woven Path by Robin Jarvis
Behind the Scenes at the Museums
242 books — 70 voters
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie PriestProject 17 by Laurie Faria StolarzAsylum by Madeleine Roux
Haunted Hospitals
45 books — 63 voters

The Grave by James HeneghanThe Great Plague by Pamela OldfieldAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperThe Kiss of Death by Malcolm RoseDeadly by Julie Chibbaro
YA & Middle Grade Epidemics/Pandemics
244 books — 62 voters
Maskerade by Terry PratchettThe Year of Shadows by Claire LegrandPhantom of the Auditorium by R.L. StineThe Dark Behind the Curtain by Gillian CrossStep into the Dark by Bridget Crowley
Haunted Theaters
60 books — 32 voters

Nathaniel Wolfe and the Bodysnatchers by Brian KeaneyThe Grave by James HeneghanLetters from the Grave by Felicity Everettmidnight_hand by paul-stewartMinistry of Pandemonium by Chris Westwood
YA & Middle Grade Graveyards
135 books — 65 voters
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris WoodingEtiquette & Espionage by Gail CarrigerCurtsies & Conspiracies by Gail CarrigerWhen the Sea Is Rising Red by Cat HellisenPastworld by Ian Beck
Victorian Paranormal YAs
143 books — 81 voters

The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead by Paul ElworkThe man who snarled at flowers by Tony Spencer-SmithThe Cat Who Played Post Office by Lilian Jackson BraunThe Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
"The {_______} Who " Titles
967 books — 129 voters

Girl in the Mirror by Cecelia AhernMirrorMask by Neil Gaiman3 by Gretchen McNeilThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollThe Accident by Diane Hoh
Someone in the Mirror
100 books — 33 voters
Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn DolamoreSea Glass by Maria V. SnyderStorm Glass by Maria V. SnyderSpy Glass by Maria V. SnyderThe Crystal Mask by Katherine Roberts
Crystal Clear
156 books — 22 voters


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