The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Classics of all Time
71 books — 53 voters
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 859 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
494 books — 502 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainPinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 415 voters

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollRoughing It by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
259 books — 350 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Cossacks by Leo TolstoyThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sk... by Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 401 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick RothfussThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,722 books — 14,377 voters
Hamnet by Maggie O'FarrellYellowface by R.F. KuangRhythm of War by Brandon SandersonThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelGreenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,998 books — 5,524 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 307 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 389 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeThe Pickwick Papers by Charles DickensVoyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related T... by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
237 books — 218 voters
Ivanhoe by Walter  ScottRip Van Winkle by Washington IrvingDon Juan by Lord ByronKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHansel and Gretel by Jacob Grimm
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
142 books — 329 voters

Travels into the Interior of Africa by Mungo ParkChronicle of El Cid by Robert SoutheyHours of Idleness by Lord ByronThe Watsons. Jane Austen's fragment continued and completed b... by Jane AustenEnglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers by Lord Byron
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonJulie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeThe Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Books for Middle-Schoolers
322 books — 158 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Best Books for Fifth Grade Readers
439 books — 357 voters
Lily Pond by Hope Ryden
Natural History of Rodents
39 books — 8 voters

Where the Wild Things Were by William StolzenburgThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Books about Big Cats
257 books — 61 voters
What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Books for Bird Lovers
537 books — 217 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonWhere the Wild Things Were by William StolzenburgThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best of Natural History
362 books — 70 voters

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Books About Animals
1,862 books — 1,926 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books Ever
78,330 books — 292,009 voters
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,339 books — 5,884 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Booker Prize Winners
72 books — 2,015 voters
Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock
Best Bear Books
184 books — 82 voters

A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
Historical Fiction - New England
113 books — 26 voters
Crossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerA Moose for Jessica by Pat A. WakefieldA Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton PeckSoup by Robert Newton Peck
Books Set in Vermont
391 books — 140 voters

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys by Slater Brown
Books about Vermont
20 books — 6 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
WWII Historic Fiction
1,503 books — 1,597 voters


« previous 1