A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stacy (30 Lists)



The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana TrigianiAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe House Girl by Tara Conklin
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,824 books — 22,590 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettLittle Bee by Chris CleaveCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsBrooklyn by Colm TóibínMennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Best Books of 2009
1,773 books — 6,933 voters

Red Hook Road by Ayelet WaldmanHouse Rules by Jodi PicoultMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Best Books of 2010
1,578 books — 2,478 voters
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahWho Do You Love by Jennifer WeinerThe Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Best Books of 2015
3,102 books — 5,118 voters

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
Best Books of 2016
1,822 books — 2,787 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Casual Vacancy by J.K. RowlingWonder by R.J. PalacioLeft Neglected by Lisa GenovaThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,670 books — 14,482 voters

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt'Tis by Frank McCourtStolen Lives by Malika OufkirA House in the Sky by Amanda LindhoutEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,672 books — 3,671 voters
The Storyteller by Jodi PicoultA House in the Sky by Amanda LindhoutAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniWe Are Water by Wally LambThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Best Books Published in 2013
3,587 books — 7,158 voters

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrLeaving Time by Jodi PicoultThe Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia HashimiBig Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Best Books of 2014
3,570 books — 6,470 voters
She’s Come Undone by Wally LambThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa DiffenbaughBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Books I want to read in 2012
406 books — 356 voters

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris BohjalianThe Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana TrigianiLeft Neglected by Lisa Genova
2012: What the Over 35s Have Read So Far
3,300 books — 727 voters
Left Neglected by Lisa GenovaThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa DiffenbaughFaith by Jennifer HaighDivergent by Veronica RothCrossed by Ally Condie
Best Books of 2011
2,671 books — 6,701 voters

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris BohjalianThe Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana TrigianiBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooThe Casual Vacancy by J.K. RowlingUnorthodox by Deborah Feldman
Best Books of 2012
3,517 books — 9,191 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,043 books — 5,316 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Influential Books
297 books — 145 voters
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryComeback by Claire Fontaine
Books that Made You Cry!
3,367 books — 8,012 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,250 books — 11,536 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Books Ever
79,427 books — 296,089 voters

Three Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
What To Read Next
21,094 books — 24,772 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryWhite Oleander by Janet FitchBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,678 voters

World Without End by Ken Follett
Thickest Books Ever
895 books — 2,495 voters
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggCane River by Lalita TademyBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonCavedweller by Dorothy AllisonBig Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Best Southern Literature
1,410 books — 2,699 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of 2006
997 books — 757 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Windy Poplars by L.M. MontgomeryThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Best Children's Books
5,461 books — 7,069 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Precious Present by Spencer JohnsonThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Favorite Books
15,102 books — 10,758 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldOne True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,197 books — 28,384 voters

Holes by Louis SacharThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Best Young Adult Books
13,359 books — 80,680 voters
Geek Love by Katherine DunnOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Worst Books of All Time
8,125 books — 19,914 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandStones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,882 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Best Historical Fiction
8,234 books — 27,163 voters