Girl Meets Boy by Ali SmithAsh by Malinda Lo
Lesbian Retellings
144 books — 61 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoShiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Best Books About Animals
1,847 books — 1,855 voters

Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,354 books — 69,169 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert
SF Masterworks
203 books — 724 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Science Fiction
3,732 books — 7,180 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDune by Frank Herbert
Best Books Ever
77,104 books — 286,921 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodGirl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology
370 books — 544 voters
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beatonxkcd by Randall MunroeGreat Aches by John Allison
Best of the Web
463 books — 455 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Best Love Stories
5,189 books — 9,653 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonSkinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Best Humorous Books
4,355 books — 7,968 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAssassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,312 books — 25,979 voters
Watchmen by Alan             MooreY by Brian K. VaughanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamThe Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanPride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Graphic Novels
3,454 books — 6,775 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerMetamorphoses by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,398 books — 2,222 voters
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineWicked by Gregory MaguirePeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon ScieszkaFables, Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,811 books — 9,153 voters

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelAvalon High by Meg CabotThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred TennysonThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Best Arthurian Fiction
480 books — 1,446 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,542 books — 24,945 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Complete Poems by John Keats
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,996 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienStardust by Neil GaimanThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters