A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth  GeorgeCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersBury Your Dead by Louise PennyHow the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Best Literary Mysteries
2,555 books — 4,616 voters
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersPresumed Innocent by Scott TurowThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersDéjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,213 books — 2,301 voters

Chill Factor by Sandra       BrownLucky's Lady by Tami HoagDark Paradise by Tami HoagCry Wolf by Tami HoagSleepwalker by Karen Robards
Best Romantic Suspense
2,180 books — 2,659 voters
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Illustrated Fairy and Folk Tales
300 books — 39 voters

The Bailey Chronicles by Catherine CooksonA Grand Man by Catherine CooksonThe Devil and Mary Ann by Catherine CooksonLife and Mary Ann by Catherine CooksonMary Ann and Bill by Catherine Cookson
Best Books to Make into a PBS Series
461 books — 384 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettEmma by Jane AustenOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,801 books — 11,410 voters

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaI've Got Your Number by Sophie KinsellaThe Undomestic Goddess by Sophie KinsellaTwenties Girl by Sophie KinsellaTen Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
Humorous Romance Books
3,154 books — 6,696 voters
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis StevensonThe Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneThe Empty Pot by DemiThe Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix PotterMillions of Cats by Wanda Gág
Best Children's Books
5,310 books — 6,709 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTwenties Girl by Sophie KinsellaI've Got Your Number by Sophie KinsellaOutlander by Diana GabaldonMean Streak by Sandra       Brown
Couldn't Put The Book Down
16,920 books — 16,755 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,686 voters

Spiritual Depression by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Self-Help Books That Actually Help
270 books — 231 voters
The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiLord of the Flies by William Golding
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,330 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensOutlander by Diana GabaldonDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonVoyager by Diana Gabaldon
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters
Miles to Go by Miley CyrusMy Life by Bill ClintonDianetics by L. Ron HubbardThe Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaLiving History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,990 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,101 voters
An Inconvenient Truth by Al GoreThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,877 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
981 books — 2,574 voters

Twenties Girl by Sophie KinsellaHard Eight by Janet EvanovichTwelve Sharp by Janet EvanovichCan You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaI've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Funny as Hell!
2,559 books — 6,493 voters

The Lonely Doll by Dare WrightThe Tall Book of Nursery Tales by Feodor RojankovskyMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. NesbitThe Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit
Favorite books from my childhood
4,420 books — 7,429 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellMain Street by Sinclair LewisThe Warden by Anthony TrollopeBarchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeDream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Social novels
154 books — 41 voters

I've Got Your Number by Sophie KinsellaWedding Night by Sophie KinsellaTheories of Everything by David RemnickProof of Life on Earth by Roz ChastThe Four Elements by Roz Chast
Best Humorous Books
4,337 books — 7,943 voters
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Best Chick-Lit I've Ever Read
1,488 books — 2,692 voters