I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
1,971 books — 1,434 voters
Fatherland by Robert   HarrisThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best Nazi novels!
45 books — 43 voters

Fatherland by Robert   HarrisWe the Living by Ayn Rand1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,856 books — 26,124 voters

A Painted House by John GrishamHow Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Coming-of-Age Memoirs
240 books — 180 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttWitness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays by Agatha ChristieDeception Point by Dan    BrownThe Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,353 books — 15,967 voters

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne HarrisThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Double Bind by Chris BohjalianAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Best Twists
8,425 books — 9,185 voters

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Best Philosophical Literature
1,184 books — 2,792 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,048 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingNight by Elie WieselRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Survival Stories
1,169 books — 1,611 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Body by Robin Waterfield
World's Greatest Novellas
718 books — 1,448 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
American Literature at the Movies
462 books — 179 voters
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Newbery Medal Winner Books
105 books — 374 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Best Literature in Portuguese
471 books — 489 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Books about Books
1,385 books — 1,519 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Best Southern Literature
1,356 books — 2,577 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Can't Do Without
251 books — 89 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,056 books — 121,831 voters

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeContact by Carl SaganThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger1984 by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,550 books — 24,990 voters
1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,791 voters

A Painted House by John Grisham
books with compelling young narrators
217 books — 176 voters