Wild's End #1 by Dan AbnettTooth & Claw, Issue #1 by Kurt Busiek
Anthropomorphic Animal Comic Books
231 books — 48 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
2,161 books — 5,445 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
778 books — 3,254 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
1,151 books — 1,032 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)
6,265 books — 8,161 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
1,297 books — 4,131 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
2,184 books — 1,917 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
1,922 books — 2,210 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
3,457 books — 6,779 voters