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
115 books — 85 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,219 books — 6,121 voters

The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,132 voters
The Children of Men by P.D. James
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,103 voters