The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Book Titles
11,498 books — 7,953 voters
Call Me By Your Name by André AcimanAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Gay Fiction
2,664 books — 3,869 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Humorous Books
4,336 books — 7,941 voters
Candide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,009 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerLooking for Alaska by John Green
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,370 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,689 books — 14,188 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,876 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Best Young Adult Fiction
3,596 books — 6,912 voters