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
110 books — 76 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,221 books — 6,120 voters

The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,066 voters
The Children of Men by P.D. James
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,101 voters