The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Female Lead Characters
4,846 books — 5,889 voters
The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlMary Poppins by P.L. Travers
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,099 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,782 voters
The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinLove You Forever by Robert MunschCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi BarrettThe Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Best Children's Books
5,307 books — 6,705 voters

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters