Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,434 books — 25,617 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisAssassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Best American History Books
2,135 books — 2,501 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Son by Philipp MeyerTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Best Westerns
1,381 books — 1,507 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersWolf Hall by Hilary MantelMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides1491 by Charles C. MannBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,829 books — 22,008 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Books White People Need to Read
1,322 books — 1,571 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisThe Son by Philipp MeyerClose Range by Annie Proulx
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
European History
787 books — 160 voters
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley
Best Middle Ages Books
1,224 books — 1,708 voters