Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,807 books — 1,690 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 857 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,132 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckRebecca by Daphne du MaurierOur Town by Thornton Wilder
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
909 books — 1,258 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Pearl by John SteinbeckThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
824 books — 1,149 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNight by Elie WieselEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,513 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDune by Frank Patrick HerbertA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,776 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,886 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardWatchmen by Alan             MooreThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,256 books — 2,435 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois LowrySpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,680 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternLegend by Marie LuCress by Marissa Meyer
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,718 books — 14,318 voters
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
There Ought to be a Band
2,423 books — 1,101 voters

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.Love You Forever by Robert MunschThe Gruffalo by Julia DonaldsonThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Picture Books
3,167 books — 2,054 voters
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.Love You Forever by Robert MunschThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books for a Baby Shower!
687 books — 546 voters