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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
1,438 books — 1,625 voters
Ham on Rye by Charles BukowskiPost Office by Charles BukowskiWomen by Charles Bukowski
The Best of Charles Bukowski
30 books — 116 voters

Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Three Chords, A Black Leather Jacket, and a Pawn Shop Guitar - Your Punk Rock Identikit
203 books — 99 voters
An Equal Music by Vikram SethBel Canto by Ann PatchettRagtime by E.L. DoctorowNocturnes by Kazuo IshiguroSongbook by Nick Hornby
Best Music Books
426 books — 201 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
171 books — 119 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
937 books — 2,463 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
3,182 books — 3,685 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
922 books — 1,261 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
12,312 books — 8,683 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
967 books — 383 voters
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)
292 books — 1,536 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
292 books — 405 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
9,534 books — 8,872 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
1,878 books — 7,000 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
417 books — 460 voters
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Best Baseball Books
760 books — 660 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
641 books — 507 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
1,033 books — 885 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,089 books — 1,829 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Latin American Fiction
904 books — 1,228 voters

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
Memoirs by Women
3,387 books — 3,615 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
504 books — 494 voters

The March by E.L. Doctorow
Best American Civil War Books
1,026 books — 1,037 voters
Ask the Dust by John FanteThe Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
American Literature
526 books — 181 voters

Ask the Dust by John Fante
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,843 books — 124,663 voters
The Kiss by Kathryn HarrisonA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
770 books — 1,175 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
1,503 books — 1,424 voters


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