To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Must Read Classics
1,863 books — 4,689 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Favorite Books
14,836 books — 10,401 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,177 books — 11,736 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNight by Elie WieselThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,266 books — 8,073 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George OrwellNight by Elie Wiesel
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,262 books — 11,582 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,717 books — 14,292 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
777 books — 1,131 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,257 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
822 books — 1,148 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William GoldingCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,512 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyHoles by Louis Sachar
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,679 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,254 books — 2,434 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe World According to Garp by John IrvingWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,954 books — 1,885 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,432 books — 1,775 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,218 books — 28,368 voters
Go Set a Watchman by Harper LeeBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesDead Wake by Erik LarsonThe Wright Brothers by David McCulloughThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Best Books of 2015
3,109 books — 5,117 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiEvicted by Matthew DesmondDark Money by Jane MayerThe Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Best Books of 2016
1,830 books — 2,779 voters
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Best Books of 2017
1,737 books — 3,082 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerEducated by Tara WestoverI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather   MorrisThere There by Tommy Orange
Best Books of 2018
1,654 books — 2,956 voters
The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongKnow My Name by Chanel MillerThe Old Drift by Namwali SerpellThe British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson
Best Books of 2019
1,388 books — 1,958 voters

City of Thieves by David BenioffOutliers by Malcolm GladwellA Fraction of the Whole by Steve ToltzHuman Smoke by Nicholson Baker
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,772 voters
1984 by George OrwellDeclaration of Independence, Constitution of the United State... by Founding FathersThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Art of War by Sun TzuAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Most Influential Books
1,489 books — 5,292 voters

Maus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMaus II by Art SpiegelmanThe Chosen by Chaim PotokNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Jewish Books
398 books — 130 voters
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan EnglanderThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowZlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Jewish Fiction And Literature
747 books — 263 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Well-Written Holocaust Books
904 books — 2,924 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Beat Generation Literature
115 books — 53 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,364 books — 2,582 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
929 books — 2,386 voters


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