The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
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Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnBeautiful Ruins by Jess WalterLaura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
2013 Tournament of Books Watch List
64 books — 379 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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Shadow of Night by Deborah HarknessThe Casual Vacancy by J.K. RowlingDead Ever After by Charlaine HarrisBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
I Marked My Calendar For This Book's Release
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The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison AllenThen Came You by Jennifer WeinerLittle Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
13,797 books — 9,690 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Best Children's Books
5,310 books — 6,709 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Best Young Adult Books
13,114 books — 80,185 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best for Book Clubs
14,730 books — 18,596 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,443 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,137 books — 1,016 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books About Mistresses
450 books — 731 voters