The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstA Boy's Own Story by Edmund WhiteDancer from the Dance by Andrew HolleranGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Best Gay Fiction
2,649 books — 3,862 voters
السد by محمود المسعديحدّث أبو هريرة قال by محمود المسعديالوشم by عبد الرحمن مجيد الربيعيEl amor, las mujeres y la vida by Mario BenedettiLa tregua by Mario Benedetti
Unjustly Untranslated
107 books — 26 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosThe Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Mexican Americans in Fiction
48 books — 12 voters
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
California Historical Fiction
279 books — 131 voters

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne WigginsThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 891 voters
Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionJazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales by Wanda Coleman
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
322 books — 289 voters

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
Best Books of 2007
1,114 books — 993 voters
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
National Book Award Finalists - 2012
21 books — 49 voters
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Pulitzer Prize Finalists
81 books — 103 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerSelected Poems by Langston HughesTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Black History Month
552 books — 492 voters
Aria by Susan Segal
Best Survival Stories
1,153 books — 1,607 voters

Aria by Susan Segal
Books You Wish More People Knew About
17,381 books — 10,356 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaThe Complete Poems by John KeatsThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Best Poetry Books
2,980 books — 2,422 voters

Reasons to Live by Amy HempelEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Best Book Titles
11,368 books — 7,752 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Collections of Short Stories
2,894 books — 2,037 voters

Call Me Waiter by Joseph Torra
Boston Books
332 books — 274 voters