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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Literary Mysteries
2,602 books — 4,714 voters
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
595 books — 1,249 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin GrossmanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerBatman by Alan Moore
Superhero Fiction
846 books — 1,240 voters
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,217 books — 1,152 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Girl from the Train by Irma JoubertThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best Book Club Books
1,074 books — 896 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
165 books — 695 voters

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
449 books — 590 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroGo Set a Watchman by Harper LeeThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
196 books — 545 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellUlysses by James JoyceMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
560 books — 544 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
Best Lighthearted Literature
621 books — 486 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books You've Probably Never Read
619 books — 412 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Books that Changed My World View
467 books — 411 voters

The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph FasanoSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelVioleta by Isabel AllendeThe Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok LeeElizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
Anticipated 2022 Literary Fiction
419 books — 391 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenGone Girl by Gillian FlynnTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntThe Round House by Louise ErdrichThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2013 Tournament of Books Watch List
64 books — 379 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters
Tenth of December by George SaundersInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonBirds of America by Lorrie MooreCivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Contemporary Short Story Collections
551 books — 334 voters

Natasha by Suzanne FinstadStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweMe by Katharine HepburnBossypants by Tina FeyDiana by Andrew Morton
Celebrity Biography
943 books — 330 voters
The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettSuch a Fun Age by Kiley ReidThe City We Became by N.K. JemisinDeacon King Kong by James McBrideThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Forthcoming Books for 2020 by African-Americans
74 books — 323 voters

Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBurial Rites by Hannah Kent
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters
National Geographic by Leah Bendavid-ValThe Art Book by Phaidon PressAlways a Traveler, Never a Tourist by Judy BloombergAnsel Adams by Ansel AdamsPortraits by Steve McCurry
Best Coffee Table Books
594 books — 293 voters

An American Marriage by Tayari JonesEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Leeساعة بغداد by Shahad Al RawiThere There by Tommy OrangeRainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018
260 books — 284 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaCall Me by Your Name by André AcimanMaurice by E.M. ForsterLie With Me by Philippe Besson
Literary Gay Romantic Novels
106 books — 261 voters

Rhinoceros Dreams by Jessica KnaussLove, Life and Everything Else by Xunaira J.Found Money by Peter Watson JenkinsSelected Stories of Morley Roberts by Morley RobertsThe Button Collector by Elizabeth Jennings
Short Stories Collection - Single Author
280 books — 259 voters
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongThe Night Tiger by Yangsze ChooQueenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsWe Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019
314 books — 246 voters

The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersDays Without End by Sebastian BarryThe Nix by Nathan HillExit West by Mohsin Hamid
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Dune by Frank Herbert
Literary Science Fiction
310 books — 239 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Indian redditors' favourite books by indian authors
116 books — 221 voters
Southern Mystical Moments by Patricia H. GrahamHillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. GrahamPast, Present, and Promises by Patricia H. GrahamSam Certainly Can by Bridgitte LesleySecond Time Around by Gay Ingram
Indie Literature, General Fiction
103 books — 213 voters

The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al RawiEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeRainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanThis I Know by Eldonna EdwardsThe Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Anticipated 2018 Literary Fiction
225 books — 198 voters
Slade House by David MitchellHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesWhat Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters

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