I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Best True Crime
1,345 books — 1,914 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...
995 books — 1,593 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 — 259 voters

Just Kids by Patti Smith
Tales of New York City
1,520 books — 1,228 voters
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Best Historical Fiction
7,436 books — 25,623 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
2,664 books — 3,867 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
3,767 books — 26,021 voters

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