The Story of an Hour by Kate ChopinThe Fifth Child by Doris LessingThe Children's Book by A.S. ByattThe Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Stand by Stephen  King
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,759 books — 25,993 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMiddlemarch by George EliotTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,876 voters
Doomsday Book by Connie WillisLincoln by Gore VidalOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
7,433 books — 25,610 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,369 voters
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert  WilsonFreedomland by Richard Price
Best Literary Mysteries
2,554 books — 4,606 voters