Wild's End #1 by Dan AbnettTooth & Claw, Issue #1 by Kurt Busiek
Anthropomorphic Animal Comic Books
229 books — 47 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler11/22/63 by Stephen  KingOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,968 books — 5,255 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiKitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,249 voters
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomerySeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,016 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtBonk by Mary Roach
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,067 voters
Soulless by Gail CarrigerThe Looking Glass Wars by Frank BeddorThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan             MooreLady of Devices by Shelley AdinaThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist
Best Steampunk Books
1,249 books — 4,094 voters

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerA Year in Provence by Peter MayleHoly Cow by Sarah MacdonaldBurma Chronicles by Guy DelisleA Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,132 books — 1,855 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonWonder Boys by Michael ChabonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,773 books — 2,172 voters

Blankets by Craig ThompsonAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloudShortcomings by Adrian TomineEx Machina, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,768 voters