All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Wager by David GrannAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnThe Fifth Risk by Michael   LewisA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Top 10 Books of This Century
12 books — 3 voters
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyGilead by Marilynne RobinsonBridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Epistolary Novels
187 books — 268 voters

The Mueller Report by The Washington PostThe Woman in the Window by A.J. FinnBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The "It" Books of Summer (60)
64 books — 6 voters
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanBabette’s Feast by Isak DinesenA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayHeartburn by Nora EphronThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Delectable Literature
73 books — 28 voters

Life Before Man by Margaret AtwoodOpen Secrets by Alice MunroI Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret CravenShip Fever by Andrea BarrettThe Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Oh, Canada!
1,335 books — 503 voters
Outlander by Diana GabaldonKidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonThe 39 Steps by John BuchanRegeneration by Pat BarkerThe Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Books Set in Scotland
983 books — 669 voters

The Long Walk by Slavomir RawiczGerman Boy by Wolfgang W.E. SamuelBad Blood by Lorna SageOut of Egypt by André Aciman
World War II Memoirs
357 books — 178 voters
Seabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCrime And Punishment; The Gambler; Notes From The Underground by DOSTOYEVSKY.Dances with Wolves by Michael BlakeA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Horse as Character
258 books — 63 voters

Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteThe Fatal Shore by Robert HughesGould's Book of Fish by Richard FlanaganThe Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Best Modern Australian Literature
562 books — 669 voters
Rabbit, Run by John UpdikeThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaLife of Pi by Yann Martel
The Chinese Zodiac
1,008 books — 95 voters

Longitude by Dava SobelThe Lives of a Cell by Lewis ThomasThe Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Two Cultures by C.P. SnowShip Fever by Andrea Barrett
SCIENCE & LITERATURE--Together at Last
245 books — 115 voters
Longitude by Dava SobelThe Lives of a Cell by Lewis ThomasWild Thoughts from Wild Places by David QuammenThe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy KidderShip Fever by Andrea Barrett
Science Writing
284 books — 140 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusNausea by Jean-Paul SartreNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreThe Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters
Dear Life by Alice MunroThe Round House by Louise Erdrich
Your Top 5 Reads in 2013
1,299 books — 1,093 voters

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersA Is for Alibi by Sue GraftonThe Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,206 books — 2,294 voters
Dissolution by C.J. SansomWhose Body? by Dorothy L. SayersThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingKnots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
1st books in a series
225 books — 57 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books Ever
76,166 books — 283,149 voters
White Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiGilead by Marilynne RobinsonThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,378 voters

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,076 books — 11,671 voters
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensMemento Mori by Muriel SparkRabbit at Rest by John UpdikeWalking Across Egypt by Clyde EdgertonThe All of It by Jeannette Haien
Books About Old People
541 books — 191 voters

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeKEY TO YOURSELF by Venice J. BloodworthThe Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Best Books on Creative Life
508 books — 620 voters
Seabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandOpen by Andre AgassiA Sense of Where You Are by John McPheeZen in the Art of Archery by Eugen HerrigelUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Top reads for sports fans
955 books — 769 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Good German by Joseph KanonMemento Mori by Muriel Spark
Shades of Gray
552 books — 47 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesPompeii by Robert   HarrisThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettA Is for Alibi by Sue GraftonPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,306 books — 15,556 voters
Motoring with Mohammed by Eric HansenRound Ireland with a Fridge by Tony HawksWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Places in Between by Rory StewartEncounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Favorite Travel Books
2,022 books — 3,944 voters


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