Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil YapaZero K by Don DeLillo
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachFreedom by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,754 books — 14,423 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,182 books — 3,685 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,272 books — 2,437 voters
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,890 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDune by Frank HerbertThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,440 books — 1,778 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir NabokovOn the Road by Jack KerouacDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,207 books — 1,518 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBlack Boy by Richard WrightThe Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerUnder the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
838 books — 1,151 voters