The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodCloud Atlas by David  MitchellThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
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7,187 books — 28,370 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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530 books — 1,886 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
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76,734 books — 285,432 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Fiction
7,443 books — 25,638 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Children's Books
5,321 books — 6,716 voters

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,775 books — 2,172 voters