The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best of: All Pulitzer Winners
96 books — 35 voters

Educated by Tara WestoverAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesThere There by Tommy OrangeThe Overstory by Richard PowersWarlight by Michael Ondaatje
NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018
100 books — 82 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
329 books — 636 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachCommunion by Whitley StrieberConfessions of an Economic Hit Man by John PerkinsDark Mission by Richard C. HoaglandSpook by Mary Roach
Coast to Coast Am
123 books — 28 voters

All the President's Men by Bob WoodwardThe Final Days by Bob WoodwardThe Invisible Bridge by Rick PerlsteinWatergate by Garrett M. GraffThe Secret Man by Bob Woodward
Watergate Scandal
50 books — 12 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Wright Brothers by David McCulloughUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWalls by David  Frye
History Published in Decade: 2010s
322 books — 26 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoethePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTales from Shakespeare by Charles LambThe Age of Reason by Thomas PaineElective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySense and Sensibility by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 324 voters

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreDon Juan by Lord ByronConfessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 150 voters
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeThe Red and the Black by Stendhal
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 236 voters


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