The Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodNeverwhere by Neil GaimanAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrMaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Best Books We Read 2017
27 books — 2 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,880 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books Ever
76,753 books — 285,554 voters
Among the Janeites by Deborah YaffeMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,068 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
The Daily Show Reading Club
342 books — 233 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteColumbine by Dave CullenMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best True Crime
1,352 books — 1,922 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
414 books — 1,097 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBeloved by Toni Morrison
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,307 books — 4,549 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 263 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Young Adult Books
13,138 books — 80,212 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
530 books — 1,886 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Best of Tolstoy
31 books — 445 voters
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserElizabeth by David Starkey
Best Books About Tudor England
612 books — 1,634 voters

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Likeness by Tana FrenchIn the Woods by Tana French
Detective Fiction
1,191 books — 1,085 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonIn the Woods by Tana FrenchDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,687 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonSomething Borrowed by Emily GiffinRoom by Emma DonoghueSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
1,666 books — 5,987 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best for Book Clubs
14,939 books — 18,809 voters