The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Great Thirst by Norris Hundley Jr.
Best California Books
434 books — 217 voters
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Literary Mysteries
2,554 books — 4,612 voters

Heart Break House by George Bernard ShawFin-de-Siècle Vienna by Carl E. SchorskeA Flea in Her Ear by Georges FeydeauThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Belle Époque
383 books — 152 voters
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1 by Fernand BraudelThe Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of P... by Fernand BraudelThe Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of P... by Fernand BraudelCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3 by Fernand BraudelCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2 by Fernand Braudel
Top Economic History Books
40 books — 18 voters

Ten Little Indians by Agatha ChristieBlack Orchids - A Nero Wolfe Novella by Rex StoutThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Classic Golden Age Mysteries
41 books — 23 voters

The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'BrianMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianLieutenant Hornblower by C.S. ForesterBeat to Quarters by C.S. ForesterThe Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Historical Naval Fiction
164 books — 130 voters
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. WodehouseUncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. WodehouseJeeves in the Morning by P.G. WodehouseHeavy Weather by P.G. WodehouseJeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Best P.G. Wodehouse
106 books — 144 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Books Ever
76,479 books — 284,530 voters
My Man Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Black Echo by Michael    ConnellyMurder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Best Series With At Least 7 Books
659 books — 376 voters

Kim by Rudyard KiplingThe Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarryTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréEye of the Needle by Ken FollettMoonraker by Ian Fleming
Espionage
989 books — 1,024 voters
The Republic by PlatoPhilosophical Investigations by Ludwig WittgensteinCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantOn Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,419 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesDas Kapital by Karl MarxAn Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon
Economic History
74 books — 25 voters
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesThe Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. HeilbronerManias, Panics, and Crashes by Robert Z. Aliber
Best Economics Books
451 books — 520 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Continental Op by Dashiell HammettThe Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
705 books — 881 voters
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFer-de-Lance by Rex StoutThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,607 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinGettysburg by Stephen W. SearsThe Civil War by Shelby Foote
Best American Civil War Books
1,008 books — 986 voters