Passing by Nella LarsenCane by Jean ToomerSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardLight in August by William Faulkner
Best African American Books
1,044 books — 1,139 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Best World War I Fiction
152 books — 183 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrIvanhoe by Walter  Scott
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,388 voters

The Pilgrim's Progress by John BunyanThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Best Christian Fiction
2,606 books — 2,594 voters
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Best Books 1954
122 books — 58 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,809 books — 49,782 voters
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamMy Ántonia by Willa CatherPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 397 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 346 voters
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Best Books 1944
129 books — 32 voters

The Night Country by Loren EiseleyThe Language of God by Francis S. CollinsA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry
Best General Science Books
582 books — 487 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books about the Great Outdoors
341 books — 129 voters

The Language of God by Francis S. CollinsThe Night Country by Loren EiseleyA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanA Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,838 books — 3,597 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,905 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,090 voters