Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,061 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,274 books — 15,384 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best True Crime
1,317 books — 1,858 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Loser by Thomas BernhardLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezHamlet by William Shakespeare
Your Top 5 Reads in 2014
1,609 books — 1,250 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Book Titles
11,254 books — 7,562 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,064 books — 890 voters
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Best Existential Fiction
441 books — 754 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 582 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Satires
300 books — 375 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 495 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cult Classics
1,566 books — 2,144 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,451 books — 11,137 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Metafiction
442 books — 576 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,294 books — 4,444 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,104 books — 1,738 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Twentieth Century American List
69 books — 27 voters

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick1984 by George OrwellJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,251 books — 24,495 voters
The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Locked Room Mysteries
150 books — 150 voters

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Best Books About Japan
516 books — 356 voters