Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/2546979-joan">Joan</a> (12 Lists)

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The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

You Want to Read in 2010

1,079 books — 1,972 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Books That Exceeded Your Expectations

16,015 books — 18,668 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Books With Unforgettable Characters

9,642 books — 8,807 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Epistolary Fiction

882 books — 880 voters

The Shack by William Paul Young

Books So Bad I Couldn't Finish...

644 books — 576 voters

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Most Depressing Book of All Time

1,235 books — 4,020 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

757 books — 792 voters

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Best Books of 2009

1,772 books — 6,932 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Best Books Ever

80,089 books — 298,462 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,208 books — 28,383 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Drifters by James A. Michener

Trinity by Leon Uris

Random Passage by Bernice Morgan

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,801 books — 49,900 voters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

What To Read Next

21,299 books — 25,084 voters