Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Grit Lit
105 books — 76 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Book Boyfriends
10,865 books — 29,114 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,254 books — 2,434 voters

Blindness by José SaramagoThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkCold Mountain by Charles FrazierAmerican Pastoral by Philip Roth
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,679 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAtonement by Ian McEwanMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,218 books — 28,368 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,717 books — 14,285 voters