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Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Alienist by Caleb CarrIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,482 books — 16,407 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
I Like Serial Killers
1,040 books — 1,627 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,301 books — 11,670 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Must Read Classics
1,887 books — 4,747 voters

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaFranz Kafka's The Castle by David FishelsonRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Quality Dark Fiction
2,704 books — 3,981 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,097 books — 5,941 voters

White Teeth by Zadie Smith
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,332 books — 5,902 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréA Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,455 books — 2,673 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Books that Make you Laugh
3,547 books — 5,232 voters
Gossip Girl by Cecily von ZiegesarEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertConfessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie KinsellaEragon by Christopher Paolini
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,640 books — 5,990 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Books I had to muscle my way through.
79 books — 27 voters
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,840 books — 22,456 voters

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Best Modern Australian Literature
566 books — 674 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,233 books — 15,908 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandLife of Pi by Yann MartelJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,277 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books Ever
78,993 books — 294,146 voters