Homicide by David Simon
Best True Crime
1,538 books — 2,231 voters
The Scar by China MiévilleMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazFourth Of July Creek by Smith HendersonThe Circle by Dave Eggers
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
674 books — 317 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotFreedom by Jonathan FranzenPost Office by Charles Bukowski
The View from Fifty-One
75 books — 29 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeParadoxical Undressing by Kristin HershThe Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Best Books by Female Authors
1,382 books — 517 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstTroubles by J.G. Farrell
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 2,008 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGerminal by Émile ZolaMiddlemarch by George EliotCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
80,179 books — 299,005 voters