The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna LabuskesHang the Moon by Jeannette WallsThe Bookbinder by Pip Williams
Historical Fiction 2023
374 books — 248 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrSchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
405 books — 625 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Magical Realism
436 books — 629 voters
Forever... by Judy BlumeGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksPlain Truth by Jodi PicoultBoys Don't Cry by Malorie BlackmanThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
YA Sex & Pregnancy Novels
330 books — 603 voters

The Holocaust Industry by Norman G. FinkelsteinThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonPlanting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. NivolaWangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
260 books — 27 voters
Red Famine by Anne ApplebaumGulag by Anne ApplebaumIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumAre We Rome? by Cullen MurphyCartoon County by Cullen Murphy
Journalism - The Atlantic
63 books — 10 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichMaiden Voyages by Siân EvansCode Girls by Liza MundyThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreWitches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich
Women's Work
199 books — 15 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Unwanted Attention
136 books — 24 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Books to Read More Than Once
540 books — 207 voters
Circe by Madeline MillerThe Outsider by Stephen        King
Hugo 2019 Eligible Novels
120 books — 420 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanFoundation by Mercedes LackeyThe Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
Schools of Magic
332 books — 403 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Books to get you in the Halloween Mood
591 books — 432 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shining by Stephen        KingThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Novels About Gardens
346 books — 46 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
681 books — 630 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Forced to read in school, but hated
321 books — 559 voters
Wonder by R.J. PalacioSon by Lois LowryThe Wishing Spell by Chris ColferThe Great Unexpected by Sharon CreechWhat the Dog Said by Randi Reisfeld
Middle Grade Novels of 2012
253 books — 632 voters

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh JohnsonA Grimm Warning by Chris ColferSky Raiders by Brandon MullHow to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating
Middle Grade Novels of 2014
517 books — 1,148 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyCold Mountain by Charles FrazierPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Best Literary Historical Fiction
707 books — 236 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusThe Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. WestA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. CroninI Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
Novels and Short Stories about Priests
193 books — 28 voters
Fatherland by Robert   HarrisThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde11/22/63 by Stephen        KingA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Best Alternate History
352 books — 680 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisWatership Down by Richard  Adams
/r/Fantasy Top Novels of All Time
296 books — 423 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 888 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen        KingThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
805 books — 1,679 voters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Runaway Wives in Fiction
9 books — 8 voters

Number the Stars by Lois LowryVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteA Coal Miner's Bride by Susan Campbell BartolettiSurvival in the Storm by Katelan JankeAcross the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana Gregory
Middle Grade Historical Fiction
199 books — 46 voters
Doctor Sleep by Stephen        KingAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniRoom by Emma DonoghueDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Books 2010's
48 books — 27 voters