Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,227 books — 8,076 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,285 books — 15,422 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,323 books — 1,872 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Loser by Thomas BernhardLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezHamlet by William Shakespeare
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,609 books — 1,250 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Book Titles
11,333 books — 7,568 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 889 voters
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Best Existential Fiction
441 books — 755 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 583 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Satires
300 books — 372 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 496 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cult Classics
1,566 books — 2,139 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,549 books — 11,151 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
442 books — 576 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,295 books — 4,460 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
75,227 books — 279,181 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,106 books — 1,734 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Twentieth Century American List
69 books — 27 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,267 books — 24,516 voters
The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Locked Room Mysteries
150 books — 150 voters

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Best Books About Japan
516 books — 357 voters