Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction
7,591 books — 25,882 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
2,171 books — 2,522 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
1,385 books — 1,520 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
672 books — 1,090 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
9,856 books — 22,184 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
7,889 books — 49,792 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Books White People Need to Read
1,361 books — 1,601 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
788 books — 160 voters
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley
Best Middle Ages Books
1,233 books — 1,717 voters