The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
340 books — 308 voters

Buffalo for the Broken Heart by Dan        O'BrienGrassland by Richard ManningGreat Plains by Michael ForsbergWhere the Buffalo Roam by Anne MatthewsWhere The Sky Began by John Madson
Sea of Grass
49 books — 13 voters
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. VaughanMs. Marvel, Vol. 1 by G. Willow WilsonRat Queens, Vol. 1 by Kurtis J. WiebeWonder Woman, Volume 1 by Brian AzzarelloBatwoman by Greg Rucka
Kickass Women in Superhero Comics
673 books — 501 voters

Roots by Alex HaleyKindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Books about American slavery
405 books — 405 voters