Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/20053023-lance">Lance</a> (58 Lists)

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Must Read Classics

1,877 books — 4,712 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

14,973 books — 10,602 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Read Them Twice...At Least

14,328 books — 11,912 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,261 books — 8,112 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1984 by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,286 books — 11,625 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,720 books — 14,360 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Best Books of the Decade: 1920s

779 books — 1,133 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

909 books — 1,259 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Best Books of the Decade: 1940s

824 books — 1,150 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Books of the Decade: 1950s

1,195 books — 1,515 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Holes by Louis Sachar

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,156 books — 3,681 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,255 books — 2,435 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Shōgun by James Clavell

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,949 books — 1,885 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,434 books — 1,777 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,215 books — 28,372 voters

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Best Books of 2015

3,108 books — 5,119 voters

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Best Books of 2016

1,827 books — 2,781 voters

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

Best Books of 2017

1,737 books — 3,082 voters

Circe by Madeline Miller

Educated by Tara Westover

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

There There by Tommy Orange

Best Books of 2018

1,652 books — 2,958 voters

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Best Books of 2019

1,385 books — 1,955 voters

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker

Best Books of 2008

1,644 books — 6,771 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United State... by Founding Fathers

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Most Influential Books

1,491 books — 5,298 voters

Maus I by Art Spiegelman

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Maus II by Art Spiegelman

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Night by Elie Wiesel

Best Jewish Books

399 books — 131 voters

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Jewish Fiction And Literature

749 books — 265 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Maus I by Art Spiegelman

Well-Written Holocaust Books

915 books — 2,960 voters

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Beat Generation Literature

116 books — 54 voters

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi

Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Highest Rated Non-Sequel Books (Average Rating 4.5+, 1000+ Ratings)

94 books — 80 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi

Highest Rated Books on Goodreads (with at least 100 ratings)

326 books — 439 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Best Southern Literature

1,382 books — 2,600 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books

930 books — 2,386 voters

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