The Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,398 books — 2,474 voters
Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceDracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Vampires and Werewolves and Witches...Oh My!
1,983 books — 3,022 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Children of Men by P.D. James
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,974 books — 26,407 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Science Fiction
3,814 books — 7,551 voters

The Third Man by Graham GreeneThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyDe noodkreet in de fles by Jussi Adler-OlsenThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Literary thrillers
155 books — 109 voters
A German Requiem by Philip KerrMarch Violets by Philip KerrThe Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
396 books — 434 voters

Congo by David Van Reybrouck
History as Literature
745 books — 640 voters
Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny
Best Graphic Novels
3,458 books — 6,778 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,814 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,086 books — 623 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,447 books — 123,525 voters