Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,352 books — 119,240 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 322 voters

1984 by George OrwellFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
830 books — 1,143 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
903 books — 1,252 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
766 books — 1,134 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,639 books — 14,092 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,140 books — 3,673 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaHyperion by Dan Simmons
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,256 books — 2,429 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,876 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,355 books — 1,779 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,180 books — 1,506 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,202 books — 28,369 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books Ever
75,453 books — 280,333 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,703 books — 25,907 voters

Hyperion by Dan SimmonsSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Best Science Fiction
3,598 books — 6,839 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Young Adult Books
13,061 books — 80,113 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great American Novel
666 books — 1,086 voters