The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
195 books — 544 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
Novels About Small-Town Life
283 books — 129 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Best Graphic Novels
3,454 books — 6,775 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonNight by Elie WieselWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,228 books — 3,921 voters
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA)
292 books — 1,538 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAura by Carlos FuentesThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,313 books — 4,565 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelThe Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Best Lesbian Graphic Novels
249 books — 233 voters

Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelBurma Chronicles by Guy DelisleStitches by David SmallPyongyang by Guy Delisle
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
405 books — 443 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Giver by Lois LowryWonder Boys by Michael ChabonThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Books That I Could Read Over and Over Again
7,314 books — 1,685 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Lorax by Dr. SeussLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderSideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Best Children's Books
5,338 books — 6,723 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWest Side Story by Irving ShulmanThe Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Tales of New York City
1,680 books — 1,239 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,079 books — 623 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,237 books — 8,067 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,781 books — 1,655 voters
Wicked by Gregory MaguireHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThree Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Abandoned Books
1,464 books — 1,464 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiDry by Augusten Burroughs
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,131 books — 1,976 voters
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
YA Violence & Abuse Novels
701 books — 869 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryNight by Elie WieselThe Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Well-Written Holocaust Books
896 books — 2,892 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxAbout a Boy by Nick HornbyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,879 books — 10,610 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,886 books — 49,785 voters

First They Killed My Father by Loung UngPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertAlmost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
Memoirs by Women
3,096 books — 3,114 voters
Night by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs by Men
1,727 books — 681 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonPhoenix Rising by Karen HesseThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Young Adult Books
13,159 books — 80,231 voters