The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Best Mumbai/Bombay Stories
58 books — 103 voters
The Rose Rent by Ellis PetersRose in Bloom by Louisa May AlcottThe Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert
Flowers in Title, Not on Cover
413 books — 93 voters

Fieldwork by Mischa BerlinskiKilled at the Whim of a Hat by Colin CotterillMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini FlintThe Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Best Books on Asia
998 books — 824 voters
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCarry On, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Best Humorous Books
4,347 books — 7,953 voters

The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse StuartCharms for the Easy Life by Kaye GibbonsChristy by Catherine MarshallWhen I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia RylantAva's Man by Rick Bragg
Best Books Set in Appalachia
795 books — 840 voters
A Name of Her Own by Jane KirkpatrickApples to Oregon by Deborah HopkinsonThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Pacific Northwest Books
916 books — 610 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,112 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHissy Fit by Mary Kay AndrewsThe Silent Treatment by Melanie Surani
Quirky Southern Fiction
970 books — 1,894 voters

Bruchko by Bruce OlsonPeace Child by Don RichardsonThrough Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth ElliotThe Cross and the Switchblade by David WilkersonGod's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
Great Missionary Stories
147 books — 181 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneRoots by Alex HaleyThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Best Historical Fiction
7,448 books — 25,643 voters

Jane Fairfax by Joan AikenJane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie BarronJane and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie BarronImpulse and Initiative by Abigail Reynolds
Jane Austen Sequels and Pastiches
303 books — 150 voters
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferMajor Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen SimonsonFrederica by Georgette Heyer
Best Books to Make into a PBS Series
461 books — 384 voters

A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini FlintA Curious Indian Cadaver by Shamini FlintThe Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin HallThe Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin HallKilled at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill
Asian Mystery
181 books — 68 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Samurai's Garden by Gail TsukiyamaThe Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Transcultural Fiction
421 books — 209 voters

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis PetersThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyA Free Man of Color by Barbara HamblyCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Mystery
2,092 books — 4,553 voters
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillThe Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall SmithMurphy's Law by Rhys BowenJane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie BarronMum's the Word by Kate Collins
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,161 books — 2,472 voters

Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenArabella by Georgette HeyerBeauty by Robin McKinleyLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
CLEAN Romance Books
2,875 books — 2,032 voters