The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best School Assigned Books
765 books — 2,059 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHowards End by E.M. ForsterNight and Day by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 777 voters
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Women's Short Stories
611 books — 39 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAt Home by Bill BrysonA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,256 books — 8,064 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownOrientalism by Edward W. SaidThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books About Colonialism
681 books — 241 voters

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,111 voters
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Victorian Novels
214 books — 508 voters

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinCranford by Elizabeth GaskellFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,886 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzUnder the Same Stars by Libba Bray
YA Fiction set in the 1980s
128 books — 57 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAlanna by Tamora PierceGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettMort by Terry PratchettHyperion by Dan Simmons
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,432 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Mazes and Labyrinths
206 books — 128 voters

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHamnet by Maggie O'FarrellDeacon King Kong by James   McBride
Best Books of 2020
1,568 books — 1,943 voters
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Dark Academia
368 books — 1,500 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDracula by Bram StokerA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleRebecca by Daphne du MaurierPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,078 books — 121,905 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareArtemis Fowl by Eoin ColferThe Cruel Prince by Holly BlackJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Books about Faery
1,128 books — 2,317 voters

Inheritor by C.J. CherryhDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonJingo by Terry PratchettFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,557 books — 25,003 voters
Alanna by Tamora PierceTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareAs You Like It by William ShakespeareCymbeline by William Shakespeare
Girls disguised as Boys
854 books — 963 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinA Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienA Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Medieval Fantasy Books
493 books — 908 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanHoles by Louis SacharThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinLes Misérables by Victor HugoAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Stand by Stephen  King
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters
Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
534 books — 1,888 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,577 books — 18,682 voters