The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Best Female Lead Characters
4,867 books — 5,907 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books Ever
76,753 books — 285,561 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,372 voters
The Exorcist by William Peter BlattyRosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Books That Gave Me Nightmares
269 books — 474 voters

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,857 books — 10,563 voters
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Disappointing Books
2,731 books — 4,600 voters

Left Behind by Tim LaHayeGodless by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterTribulation Force by Tim LaHaye
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,989 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouAnimal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Banned Books 2007-2008
85 books — 202 voters

White Oleander by Janet FitchThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Best Books for a Book Club
752 books — 455 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe World According to Garp by John IrvingRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinTerms of Endearment by Larry McMurtryA Time to Kill by John Grisham
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,099 voters

Ariel by Sylvia PlathHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Collected Poems by Sylvia PlathThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya Angelou
Best Poetry Books
2,996 books — 2,446 voters