Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTrainspotting by Irvine WelshAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisPost Office by Charles BukowskiAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Dark Humor
758 books — 1,762 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
City Life
332 books — 213 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
Books Set in Chicago
772 books — 346 voters
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Boston Books
344 books — 291 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelJunky by William S. BurroughsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Drug Memoir A List
182 books — 223 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiCollected Poems by Dylan ThomasTell Me by Kim AddonizioMud Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling by Nicole Hardy
Best Poetry Books
3,130 books — 2,867 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersIs That it? by Bob Geldof
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,890 books — 8,797 voters
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,162 books — 27,053 voters

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,123 books — 10,101 voters