The Mourning Handbook by Helen FitzgeraldDeath and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
585 books — 264 voters
Lasher by Anne RiceTaltos by Anne RiceSuddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
424 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
1,012 books — 1,001 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
9,854 books — 22,215 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
7,889 books — 49,793 voters
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Great Crime and Mysteries
177 books — 115 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Haunted Hospitals
46 books — 64 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
147 books — 248 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
True Life Adventure
387 books — 253 voters
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
Scariest books of all time
640 books — 735 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ghost Stories
1,501 books — 1,921 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
1,388 books — 2,011 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerRoots by Alex HaleyCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
7,610 books — 25,899 voters