The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Biblical Retellings
225 books — 62 voters
According to Mary Magdalene by Marianne FredrikssonThe Testament of Mary by Colm TóibínThe Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip PullmanDe nachtwandelaar by Marianne Fredriksson
New Testament based Biblical Fiction
180 books — 107 voters

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroBrooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners
94 books — 89 voters
Smile by Roddy Doyle
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,966 books — 5,251 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjePossession by A.S. ByattThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstThe Sea by John Banville
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,987 voters
Eva Luna by Isabel AllendeThe Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,306 books — 4,535 voters

Great House by Nicole KraussThe Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel AllendeThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Best Literary Fiction of 21st Century
642 books — 277 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPossession by A.S. ByattThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,262 books — 5,233 voters