Cassandra by Christa WolfMedea by Christa WolfThe Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlThe Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar WildeWhen the World Was Steady by Claire MessudAs You Like It by William ShakespeareThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best British and Irish Literature
1,170 books — 1,112 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Best Feminist Books
2,541 books — 3,536 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,306 books — 4,535 voters
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice WalkerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,139 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,207 books — 25,759 voters
Harmony by Project ItohParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Diverse Sci-Fi
129 books — 58 voters

Momo by Michael EndePerfume by Patrick SüskindEffi Briest by Theodor FontaneThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Devil's Elixirs by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Best German Authors
606 books — 705 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,760 books — 25,995 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Most Interesting Magic System
2,650 books — 8,769 voters
Cassandra by Christa WolfThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Books Ever
76,477 books — 284,502 voters