All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,132 voters
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
489 books — 502 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenEmma by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 327 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 414 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyGreat Expectations by Charles DickensLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 399 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneBleak House by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 304 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 387 voters