Ready Player One by Ernest ClineThe Martian by Andy Weir
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,339 books — 9,241 voters
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroCarrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,988 books — 5,504 voters

Persuasion by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Best Female Lead Characters
4,890 books — 5,931 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Love Stories
5,223 books — 9,716 voters

Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnGone Girl by Gillian FlynnWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Smart Summer Reads
13,262 books — 11,234 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
535 books — 1,890 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
All Time Favorite Romance Novels
5,801 books — 12,840 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,795 books — 26,082 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,803 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,093 voters

Blindness by José Saramago
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,680 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,719 books — 14,317 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,414 books — 16,249 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonI Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom WolfeThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Best Vacation Books
241 books — 138 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,261 books — 8,077 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,227 books — 11,782 voters

Blindness by José SaramagoWatchmen by Alan             Moore
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,929 books — 26,288 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books Ever
77,830 books — 290,377 voters