The Billionaire Bad Boys Club by Emma Holly
Favourite MMF romance
705 books — 1,034 voters
From Here to Eternity by James  Jones
Best War Novels
1,700 books — 1,449 voters

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
Best Canadian Literature
2,338 books — 1,147 voters

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Best Historical Mystery
2,209 books — 4,714 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
1,297 books — 1,092 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
379 books — 552 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Down by the Sea
740 books — 562 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....
1,320 books — 1,980 voters
Widow of Sighing Pines by Jane WalkerKilling Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,267 books — 790 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Winds of War by Herman Wouk
World War II Fiction
1,419 books — 2,047 voters
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,975 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
4,369 books — 2,212 voters
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,140 books — 1,016 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
8,498 books — 9,316 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniPraying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
Literature of Social Change
435 books — 314 voters

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,260 books — 8,073 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
974 books — 1,899 voters

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,338 books — 17,170 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Historical Fiction
7,751 books — 25,999 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
15,149 books — 19,292 voters

The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Detective Fiction
1,206 books — 1,093 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
77,522 books — 289,441 voters


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