Five Decembers by James KestrelGrifter's Game by Lawrence BlockThe Girl with the Long Green Heart by Lawrence BlockDouble Feature by Donald E. WestlakeFake I.D. by Jason Starr
Hard Case Crime - Imprint
131 books — 46 voters
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter  Swanson
The Girl on the Train Read A Likes
180 books — 233 voters

Men, Women and Rattlesnakes by Franklin P. Collier Jr.
Cool Your Jets, Turbo... (1930s)
165 books — 3 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayRed Harvest by Dashiell HammettDecline and Fall by Evelyn WaughCane by Jean Toomer
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,133 voters

Summer of '42 by Herman RaucherThe Summer of Katya by TrevanianThe Dangerous Summer by Ernest HemingwayBonjour Tristesse by Françoise SaganThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books Set During Summer
18 books — 8 voters

Chasing the Rising Sun by Ted AnthonyWhite Christmas by Jody RosenDanny Boy by Malachy McCourtStrange Fruit by David MargolickLouie Louie by Dave Marsh
Books About a Single Song
45 books — 4 voters
The Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Separate Peace by John KnowlesSummer of '42 by Herman Raucher
Best Coming of Age Stories
1,300 books — 1,130 voters

The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves
Books set in San_Francisco
57 books — 26 voters
The Night Action by Bruce Douglas Reeves
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
445 books — 337 voters

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Best Westerns
1,375 books — 1,500 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 878 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Good-bye by Raymond ChandlerThe Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1 by Mickey Spillane
Best Hardboiled Crime Novels
110 books — 76 voters

Mommie Dearest by Christina CrawfordGhost World by Daniel ClowesConfessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de QuinceyThe Wild Party by Joseph Moncure MarchBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña
Cult Classics
1,567 books — 2,121 voters

Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann BeattieBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best of Vintage Contemporaries
55 books — 38 voters
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Books I Regret Reading
2,300 books — 3,225 voters

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan WilsonUptown Downtown by Dennis LyndsRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesCoffee, Tea or Me? by Trudy BakerZoomar by Ernie Kovacs
If You Like Mad Men . . .
63 books — 90 voters
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest HemingwayDeath in the Afternoon by Ernest HemingwayOr I'll Dress You in Mourning by Larry Collins
Bullfighting, Tauromachia, Tauromachy
24 books — 15 voters

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoGabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge AmadoTieta by Jorge AmadoTereza Batista by Jorge Amado
Best Literature in Portuguese
476 books — 488 voters
Till Death Us Do Part by Vincent BugliosiThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonWiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
True Crime
726 books — 607 voters

On the Road by Jack KerouacThe Subterraneans by Jack KerouacThe Night Action by Bruce Douglas ReevesThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Till Death Us Do Part by Vincent BugliosiThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonWiseguy by Nicholas PileggiCatch Me If You Can by Jeff NathansonThe Valachi Papers by Peter Maas
Best True Crime
1,344 books — 1,885 voters
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Detective Fiction
1,187 books — 1,082 voters

I Spit on Your Graves by Boris VianHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerPardon My Body by Dale Bogard
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,875 voters


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