Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittTrue Grit by Charles PortisDead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtryComanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
Best Westerns
1,385 books — 1,520 voters
Ham on Rye by Charles BukowskiPost Office by Charles BukowskiWomen by Charles Bukowski
The Best of Charles Bukowski
30 books — 117 voters

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Fiction for the Musically Inclined
29 books — 11 voters
An Equal Music by Vikram SethBel Canto by Ann PatchettNocturnes by Kazuo IshiguroSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Classical Music themes in Literature
169 books — 115 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyAn Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Best Indian Fiction Books
921 books — 2,440 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAsk the Dust by John FanteBrighton Rock by Graham GreeneWait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,255 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingIn Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganLast Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Best Book Titles
11,935 books — 8,236 voters

Ask the Dust by John FanteOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckHouse of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIIPost Office by Charles Bukowski
Novels Set in California
922 books — 371 voters
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)
292 books — 1,538 voters

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2012 Tournament of Books
16 books — 245 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe World According to Garp by John IrvingOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,490 books — 8,595 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
382 books — 422 voters
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Best Baseball Books
750 books — 654 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Best Books You've Probably Never Read
618 books — 411 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaLife of Pi by Yann Martel
India
1,027 books — 877 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,020 books — 1,521 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Latin American Fiction
877 books — 1,163 voters

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
Memoirs by Women
3,103 books — 3,055 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Books with Unreliable Narrators
501 books — 490 voters

The March by E.L. Doctorow
Best American Civil War Books
1,010 books — 999 voters
Ask the Dust by John FanteThe Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
American Literature
519 books — 175 voters

Ask the Dust by John Fante
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,055 books — 121,768 voters
The Kiss by Kathryn HarrisonA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
718 books — 1,075 voters

Who Killed Martin Hannett? by Colin Sharp
'New Music' Books
115 books — 32 voters
Who Killed Martin Hannett? by Colin Sharp
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,448 books — 1,352 voters


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