The Mourning Handbook by Helen FitzgeraldDeath and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
583 books — 264 voters
Lasher by Anne RiceTaltos by Anne RiceSuddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
422 books — 346 voters

Brady's Civil War by Webb B. GarrisonThe Most Glorious Fourth by Duane P. SchultzShenandoah 1862 by Peter CozzensGlory Road by Bruce CattonAbraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson
Best American Civil War Books
1,008 books — 986 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,842 books — 22,018 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,791 voters
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Great Crime and Mysteries
175 books — 117 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Haunted Hospitals
45 books — 63 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckDracula by Bram StokerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Now That's What I Call A Good Read
314 books — 86 voters

The Stand by Stephen  King
Adult Dystopian Books
144 books — 246 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
True Life Adventure
386 books — 251 voters
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
Scariest books of all time
639 books — 734 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ghost Stories
1,475 books — 1,881 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtSmall Sacrifices by Ann Rule
Best True Crime
1,341 books — 1,913 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerRoots by Alex HaleyCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
7,433 books — 25,621 voters