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Middlemarch by George EliotOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensLes Misérables by Victor HugoEmma by Jane AustenWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,913 voters
The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanConsider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
First In Series (2013)
899 books — 2,036 voters

The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettPossession by A.S. ByattThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónDissolution by C.J. Sansom
Best Historical Mystery
2,299 books — 4,830 voters
Black and Blue by Ian RankinLanark by Alasdair GrayThe Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice GallowayTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Best Scottish Fiction
424 books — 287 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakQuicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,000 voters
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna PolitkovskayaMagnetic Mountain by Stephen KotkinBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumLenin's Tomb by David Remnick
Best Russian History Books
589 books — 426 voters

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rest Is Noise by Alex RossPlanet of Slums by Mike Davis
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters