An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroThe Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners
94 books — 89 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,026 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,998 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Son by Philipp MeyerBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Westerns
1,382 books — 1,510 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,044 voters
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,100 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Books I wish I had never read
1,277 books — 1,342 voters
The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroSacred Hunger by Barry UnsworthThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyVernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,990 voters