The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersThe Drowning Pool by Ross MacdonaldThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Best Hardboiled Crime Novels
117 books — 101 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,227 books — 6,116 voters

The Mother Tongue by Bill  Bryson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,417 books — 8,204 voters
The Children of Men by P.D. James
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,122 books — 10,104 voters