The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,758 books — 120,824 voters
James by Percival EverettThe Wedding People by Alison Espach
2025 Tournament of Books Longlist
85 books — 325 voters

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Winter of the Witch by Katherine ArdenThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Best Books of 2019
1,389 books — 1,961 voters
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine ArdenDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
Historical Fiction 2019
415 books — 655 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne LamottOn Writing by Stephen  KingThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronWhy I Write by George OrwellA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books on Writing
799 books — 1,328 voters
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Best Books of 2016
1,832 books — 2,783 voters

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa SeeThe Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer    Ryan
Best Books of 2017
1,733 books — 3,084 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenMe Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttLegend by Marie LuA Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,688 books — 14,218 voters

The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerMastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildHow to Cook Everything by Mark BittmanThe New Best Recipe by Cook's IllustratedThe America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen
Best Cookbooks
1,448 books — 1,108 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Best Historical Fiction
7,440 books — 25,629 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,040 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskySpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
2,983 books — 12,438 voters

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
Best Middle Ages Books
1,225 books — 1,709 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Best Picture Books
3,094 books — 1,997 voters

100 Selected Poems by E.E. CummingsFour Quartets by T.S. EliotGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownThe Collected Poems by Wallace StevensA Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,789 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensChains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Teen Historical Fiction
1,398 books — 3,096 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddKristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid UndsetThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books Ever
76,717 books — 285,163 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,370 voters