The Billionaire Bad Boys Club by Emma Holly
Favourite MMF romance
717 books — 1,035 voters
From Here to Eternity by James  Jones
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
Best Canadian Literature
2,333 books — 1,146 voters

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Best Historical Mystery
2,070 books — 4,532 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerNative Son by Richard Wright
February House
31 books — 26 voters

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinThe Round House by Louise ErdrichThe Chaperone by Laura MoriartyGerman Boy by Wolfgang W.E. SamuelFall of Giants by Ken Follett
Your Top 5 Reads in 2013
1,301 books — 1,094 voters

As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Past-Present Books
377 books — 546 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Down by the Sea
742 books — 560 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinRed Rover by Deirdre McNamer
Bonds Between Brothers
50 books — 15 voters

Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
Best Books You've Never Heard of....
1,319 books — 1,956 voters
Widow of Sighing Pines by Jane WalkerKilling Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 791 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Winds of War by Herman Wouk
World War II Fiction
1,292 books — 2,017 voters
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,916 voters

Love in a Dry Season by Shelby FooteA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousWidow of Sighing Pines by Jane Walker
Best Unappreciated Books
4,356 books — 2,202 voters
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,017 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe End by Lemony SnicketThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Firm by Robin Waterfield
Best Twists
8,352 books — 8,964 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniPraying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 314 voters

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,062 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettCold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsEating the Cheshire Cat by Helen EllisThe Three Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer
Quirky Southern Fiction
968 books — 1,906 voters

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,699 books — 16,422 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Historical Fiction
7,392 books — 25,577 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best for Book Clubs
14,554 books — 18,410 voters

The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Detective Fiction
1,187 books — 1,082 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Best Books Ever
76,085 books — 282,708 voters


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