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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Books of the 20th Century

501st out of 7,899 books — 49,788 voters

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Libra by Don DeLillo

Mao II by Don DeLillo

Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo ranked

2nd out of 18 books — 80 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

100th out of 3,140 books — 3,677 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

206th out of 1,873 books — 6,996 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Best Books Ever

3007th out of 76,943 books — 286,330 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great American Novel

73rd out of 672 books — 1,090 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Thickest Books Ever

107th out of 889 books — 2,487 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

A Postmodernist "Canon"

29th out of 273 books — 172 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Beloved by Toni Morrison

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

White Noise by Don DeLillo

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The New York Times Best Works of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

9th out of 40 books — 92 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Beloved by Toni Morrison

(Not) Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

20th out of 100 books — 160 voters

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers

19th out of 50 books — 105 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Pulitzer Prize Finalists

5th out of 81 books — 103 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

1984 by George Orwell

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)

20th out of 106 books — 50 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Best Books of 1997

23rd out of 538 books — 247 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Postmodern Genius

97th out of 519 books — 582 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1984 by George Orwell

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

900th out of 1,336 books — 5,857 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The 800+ page Gorillaz

149th out of 459 books — 519 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Entertainment Weekly New Classics

72nd out of 104 books — 258 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

The Worst Books of All Time

880th out of 8,096 books — 19,873 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

5218th out of 15,632 books — 17,943 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

5626th out of 31,961 books — 121,326 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

4279th out of 14,821 books — 15,009 voters

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Holes by Louis Sachar

Room by Emma Donoghue

One-Word Titles: Novels (NO Proper Nouns)

39th out of 1,184 books — 51 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

FSU /lit/-core Race of 2015

72nd out of 100 books — 11 voters

1984 by George Orwell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read

90th out of 100 books — 101 voters

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Born Slippy by Tom Lutz

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

Libra by Don DeLillo

The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

FAVORITE AMERICAN BOOKS

1st out of 13 books — 8 voters

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

Stephen King's Reading List for Writers

7th out of 95 books — 10 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Tales of New York City

286th out of 1,676 books — 1,235 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The 75 Books Every Man Should Read (from Esquire)

62nd out of 129 books — 147 voters

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

16th out of 778 books — 45 voters

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