To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,961 books — 121,332 voters
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenThe Road by Cormac McCarthyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeMy Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead GeorgeIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Best Survival Stories
1,164 books — 1,609 voters

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Best Books Ever
76,945 books — 286,345 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsA Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Best Southern Literature
1,349 books — 2,577 voters
1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Ending
8,110 books — 6,132 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,047 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,039 books — 10,555 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,093 books — 11,556 voters
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,002 books — 5,300 voters

’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  King
Best Adult Vampire Books
1,799 books — 4,930 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerNightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen  King
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,042 voters
Watchmen by Alan             MooreBatman by Frank MillerGhost World by Daniel Clowes
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,175 books — 2,015 voters

The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.The O'Reilly Factor for Kids by Bill O'ReillyThe Way Things Ought to Be by Rush LimbaughCulture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,991 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieWatchmen by Alan             MooreHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Twists
8,403 books — 9,129 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Young Adult Books
13,148 books — 80,221 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 569 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAndersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,369 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,551 books — 24,871 voters
Millennium Approaches by Tony KushnerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeFences by August WilsonPerestroika by Tony KushnerWest Side Story by Arthur Laurents
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,873 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters