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
149 books — 241 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
4,090 books — 26,992 voters
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Find Your Next Vacation...in a Book!
359 books — 276 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
8,249 books — 27,181 voters

Effi Briest by Theodor FontaneBuddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
German Classics
227 books — 150 voters
The Tudors by G.J. MeyerThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Tudor non-fiction
212 books — 68 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
645 books — 1,673 voters
Liberty by Isaiah BerlinNations and Nationalism by Ernest GellnerThe Republic by PlatoPolitics by AristotleThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Politics
571 books — 754 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
459 books — 578 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Epistolary Novels
192 books — 275 voters