The Mourning Handbook by Helen FitzgeraldDeath and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
593 books — 268 voters
Lasher by Anne RiceTaltos by Anne RiceSuddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Best New Orleans Books
427 books — 347 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
1,017 books — 1,024 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
9,846 books — 22,405 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
7,877 books — 49,834 voters
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Great Crime and Mysteries
184 books — 125 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Haunted Hospitals
47 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
315 books — 87 voters

The Stand by Stephen  King
Adult Dystopian Books
149 books — 252 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
True Life Adventure
392 books — 262 voters
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
Scariest books of all time
639 books — 735 voters

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ghost Stories
1,518 books — 1,978 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
1,464 books — 2,092 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerRoots by Alex HaleyCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
7,940 books — 26,426 voters