To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,677 books — 120,602 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPersuasion by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,876 voters

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeMaus I by Art SpiegelmanCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Children's Books
5,313 books — 6,710 voters