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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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

1984 by George Orwell

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

158th out of 32,959 books — 125,107 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

269th out of 79,443 books — 296,211 voters

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

Marked by P.C. Cast

Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

159th out of 32,652 books — 70,196 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

79th out of 15,232 books — 15,987 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

128th out of 2,605 books — 6,280 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

1984 by George Orwell

Conspiracy Fiction

50th out of 1,475 books — 1,874 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Best Crime & Mystery Books

295th out of 7,505 books — 16,705 voters

The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Murder on Family Grounds by Susan Rowland

Psychological Thrillers

59th out of 600 books — 936 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

3rd out of 18 books — 81 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

151st out of 2,320 books — 2,448 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

62nd out of 519 books — 584 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

1984 by George Orwell

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

338th out of 3,273 books — 11,710 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

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

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books of the 20th Century

1299th out of 7,818 books — 49,884 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

764th out of 1,318 books — 5,903 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Postmodern Novels

21st out of 103 books — 113 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

19th out of 40 books — 92 voters

Libra by Don DeLillo

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Zodiac Starforce Volume 1 by Kevin Panetta

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

1st out of 258 books — 28 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)

51st out of 106 books — 50 voters

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Katherine by Anya Seton

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves

29th out of 449 books — 85 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Best Historical Fiction

1221st out of 8,249 books — 27,181 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

When the Moon Is in the Seventh House ...

6th out of 94 books — 28 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

464th out of 673 books — 1,111 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

Biographic Fiction

164th out of 746 books — 340 voters

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

1984 by George Orwell

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Developing Prescribed Texts Lists

316th out of 510 books — 282 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class

463rd out of 624 books — 2,774 voters

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Best Books of 1988

60th out of 381 books — 175 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)

89th out of 129 books — 149 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

4th out of 13 books — 8 voters

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Best Alternate History

220th out of 388 books — 718 voters

The Complete Poems by Hart Crane

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Moby Dick, or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

54th out of 193 books — 4 voters

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