The Twits by Roald Dahl
Best Books of 1980
326 books — 212 voters
The BFG by Roald DahlSchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Best Books of 1982
285 books — 182 voters

The Witches by Roald Dahl
Best Books of 1983
284 books — 164 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe White Castle by Orhan PamukHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Books of 1985
336 books — 216 voters

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen JohnsonInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Best Books 2019
1,141 books — 1,309 voters
Bad Blood by John CarreyrouBecoming by Michelle ObamaHow to Change Your Mind by Michael PollanThere There by Tommy OrangeMake Trouble by Cecile Richards
Best Books of 2018
1,652 books — 2,959 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 702 voters
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 541 voters

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Best Books Published in 2013
3,586 books — 7,162 voters
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteWonder by R.J. PalacioTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntEscape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Best Books of 2012
3,521 books — 9,203 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Best Books of 2015
3,107 books — 5,120 voters
Shrill by Lindy WestNews of the World by Paulette JilesLab Girl by Hope JahrenHag-Seed by Margaret AtwoodPaper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Best Books of 2016
1,832 books — 2,784 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindLolita by Vladimir NabokovAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,194 books — 11,298 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannExit West by Mohsin HamidRich People Problems by Kevin KwanKindred by Damian DuffyThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Best Books of 2017
1,734 books — 3,084 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
British and Irish Nature Writing
249 books — 168 voters
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Lighthouses
454 books — 158 voters

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur JaswalAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,970 books — 2,837 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLes Misérables by Victor HugoA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,871 voters
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Sula by Toni MorrisonThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyJailbird by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,879 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 324 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensCivil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 383 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 301 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 398 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 410 voters
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 499 voters

Black Boy by Richard WrightThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryNative Son by Richard WrightLa casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García LorcaThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,142 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 774 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfSiddhartha by Hermann HesseAmerika by Franz KafkaWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,130 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,778 voters


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