The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,243 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,433 voters

The Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Hours by Michael CunninghamMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultForrest Gump by Winston Groom
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,101 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,942 books — 16,674 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,605 books — 10,344 voters

Godless by Ann CoulterThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,990 voters
God Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensLetting Go of God by Julia Sweeney
Notable Atheist Books
552 books — 949 voters

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-ReverteAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,649 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupérySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,727 books — 120,787 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLord of the Flies by William Golding
Must Read Classics
1,865 books — 4,659 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books Ever
76,704 books — 285,079 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,186 books — 28,369 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,791 voters