King Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickPeter the Great by Frederick DavidsonNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Best History Books
3,927 books — 4,085 voters
The Stand by Stephen  KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceCarrie by Stephen  KingThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughRoots by Alex Haley
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,949 books — 1,885 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerIt by Stephen  KingThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,831 books — 22,350 voters

Fast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichColumbine by Dave Cullen
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,440 books — 2,637 voters