Homicide by David Simon
Best True Crime
1,384 books — 2,009 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
643 books — 280 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotFreedom by Jonathan FranzenPost Office by Charles Bukowski
The View from Fifty-One
75 books — 29 voters
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Best Books by Female Authors
1,365 books — 467 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
63 books — 1,994 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
77,179 books — 287,690 voters