The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsŌoku by Fumi YoshinagaThe Grand Sophy by Georgette HeyerNights at the Circus by Angela CarterMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Female Lead Characters
4,890 books — 5,931 voters
All the Windwracked Stars by Elizabeth Bear
Norse Mythology
299 books — 412 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingIvanhoe by Walter  Scott
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,748 books — 6,901 voters
The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsDune by Frank Patrick HerbertSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,676 books — 25,212 voters

Doomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'BrianTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersOrlando by Virginia WoolfThe Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
Best Historical Fiction
7,795 books — 26,091 voters
Richard III by William ShakespeareDragonLance by Margaret WeisMacbeth by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 584 voters

Ichigenme...The First Class Is Civil Law, Volume 1 by Fumi YoshinagaSwordspoint by Ellen KushnerThe Fall of the Kings by Ellen KushnerLuck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingMaurice by E.M. Forster
The Best of Gay Romance
3,587 books — 3,379 voters
The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaTerrier by Tamora Pierce
Best Book Cover Art
12,392 books — 7,093 voters