The Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Cuckoo's Calling by Robert GalbraithThe Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
Rules of Civility by Amor TowlesAtonement by Ian McEwanTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best 1930s Historical Fiction
125 books — 218 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,768 books — 26,022 voters
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Find Your Next Vacation...in a Book!
347 books — 268 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferI, Claudius by Robert GravesRoots by Alex HaleyWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,437 books — 25,624 voters

Effi Briest by Theodor FontaneBuddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
German Classics
227 books — 151 voters
The Tudors by G.J. MeyerThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Tudor non-fiction
211 books — 67 voters

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret GeorgeWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Tudors by G.J. MeyerThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Best Books About Tudor England
612 books — 1,635 voters
Liberty by Isaiah BerlinNations and Nationalism by Ernest GellnerThe Republic by PlatoPolitics by AristotleThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Politics
488 books — 459 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez
Books About Librarians
454 books — 576 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Epistolary Novels
187 books — 269 voters