The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,369 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 385 voters

Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 304 voters
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 399 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 414 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
471 books — 500 voters

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 777 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman MelvillePassing by Nella Larsen
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
906 books — 1,255 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,145 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,185 books — 1,509 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaBeloved by Toni MorrisonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,432 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,140 books — 3,678 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,974 books — 121,381 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,853 books — 22,123 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Historical Fiction
7,501 books — 25,711 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters