I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Best True Crime
1,408 books — 2,017 voters

We by Yevgeny ZamyatinNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.The Giver by Lois Lowry
This Is the End...
1,005 books — 1,600 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilHelen of Troy by Margaret George
About the Trojan War
274 books — 258 voters

Just Kids by Patti Smith
Tales of New York City
1,710 books — 1,278 voters
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Best Historical Fiction
7,812 books — 26,062 voters

The Persian Boy by Mary RenaultThe Last of the Wine by Mary RenaultAs Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCannThe Charioteer by Mary RenaultA Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Best Gay Fiction
2,689 books — 3,896 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,925 books — 26,247 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Top 100 New Classics
262 books — 417 voters