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The Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,754 books — 14,423 voters
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskeyCaps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Best Children's Books
5,417 books — 7,027 voters

Darkfever by Karen Marie MoningTouch the Dark by Karen ChanceRosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuireSkinwalker by Faith HunterUnholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,345 books — 12,845 voters
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Picture Books of the 2000s
171 books — 20 voters

Winter Lullaby by Dianne White
Picture Books of the 2020s
124 books — 23 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
493 books — 778 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderRamona the Pest by Beverly ClearyPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Must-Have Series for Children Ages 6 to 12
910 books — 1,351 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,840 books — 22,454 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George EliotVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,913 voters
Your Inner Fish by Neil ShubinThe Extended Phenotype by Richard DawkinsDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. DennettThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Books on Evolution...
280 books — 219 voters

The Difference Engine by William Gibson
Best Steampunk Books
1,302 books — 4,141 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Everyone's Read It But Me
782 books — 4,739 voters

Swamplandia! by Karen RussellTiassa by Steven BrustThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,227 books — 6,619 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,323 books — 80,576 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBeloved by Toni Morrison
What To Read Next
21,104 books — 24,318 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Neuromancer by William GibsonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,876 books — 49,844 voters

Abiku by Debo KotunThe Squatter and the Don by Maria Amparo;Sanchez Ruiz D...The Princess Who Always Ran Away by Maryke Reesink
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
538 books — 362 voters
Milk by Anne MendelsonThe Code Book by Simon SinghA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,882 books — 2,262 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,275 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsSpook Country by William Gibson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerBeloved by Toni MorrisonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Best Books Ever
78,989 books — 294,120 voters