Notes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertWhatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
Humorous Memoirs and Non-Fiction
942 books — 1,247 voters
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Best True Survival Stories
417 books — 542 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWool by Hugh HoweyThe Passage by Justin Cronin
Best Dystopian Fiction of All Time
458 books — 1,292 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsEmpire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Best British and Irish Literature
1,170 books — 1,112 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesSacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,989 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulCoolie by Mulk Raj Anand
Best Indian Fiction Books
916 books — 2,424 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,907 books — 16,636 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniAtonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,186 books — 28,368 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerI Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,687 books — 14,205 voters

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Man Booker Prize shortlist 2015
6 books — 22 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Diamond Age by Neal StephensonWorld Made by Hand by James Howard KunstlerIn the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,765 books — 26,019 voters

Brick Lane by Monica AliHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
London Calling
1,234 books — 645 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacThe Stranger by Albert CamusTrainspotting by Irvine WelshStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Cult Classics
1,568 books — 2,120 voters

Breath by Tim Winton
Fictitious Australia
462 books — 115 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroGoodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Japanese authors
236 books — 173 voters
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradWhatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter AllisonCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Best books for an African Safari
476 books — 525 voters

The Beach by Alex Garland
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,132 books — 1,855 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanShutter Island by Dennis LehaneThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Best Twists
8,361 books — 9,013 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
1,958 books — 1,404 voters


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