Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,790 books — 6,324 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,635 books — 14,139 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Alienist by Caleb CarrSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Best Literary Mysteries
2,545 books — 4,583 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen        King
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
606 books — 555 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,305 books — 15,553 voters
The Developing Mind by Daniel J. SiegelThe Illuminated Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-RumiThe Journalist and the Murderer by Janet MalcolmDeep Survival by Laurence GonzalesA User's Guide to the Brain by John J. Ratey
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters