The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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8,729 books — 5,871 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,720 books — 14,354 voters

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Best Books of 2019
1,385 books — 1,955 voters
The Histories by HerodotusNight by Elie Wiesel
Best History Books
3,924 books — 4,056 voters

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret MeadEuphoria by Lily King
Best Popular Anthropology Books
359 books — 271 voters
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
WWII Historic Fiction
1,498 books — 1,587 voters

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeSarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
7,855 books — 26,141 voters
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,510 books — 123,742 voters

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Judge A Book By Its Cover!
15,808 books — 17,809 voters