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Middlemarch by George EliotOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensLes Misérables by Victor HugoEmma by Jane AustenWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,856 voters
The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanConsider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
First In Series (2013)
899 books — 2,038 voters

The Game of Kings by Dorothy DunnettPossession by A.S. ByattThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónDissolution by C.J. Sansom
Best Historical Mystery
1,991 books — 4,476 voters
Black and Blue by Ian RankinLanark by Alasdair GrayThe Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice GallowayTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Best Scottish Fiction
408 books — 282 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakQuicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,867 books — 6,999 voters
A Small Corner of Hell by Anna PolitkovskayaMagnetic Mountain by Stephen KotkinBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumLenin's Tomb by David Remnick
Best Russian History Books
545 books — 380 voters

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rest Is Noise by Alex RossPlanet of Slums by Mike Davis
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,224 books — 28,362 voters