Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutThe Likeness by Tana FrenchWhen Will There Be Good News? by Kate AtkinsonLush Life by Richard PriceThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,774 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLolita by Vladimir NabokovEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOn the Road by Jack KerouacThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,185 books — 1,511 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,884 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,431 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,701 books — 14,264 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAtonement by Ian McEwanBel Canto by Ann PatchettCloud Atlas by David  MitchellThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,370 voters

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganExit West by Mohsin HamidPachinko by Min Jin LeeTransit by Rachel CuskMy Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
NYT Notable Books (Fiction) 2017
50 books — 21 voters

Missoula by Jon Krakauer
True Crime
732 books — 625 voters
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithPerfume by Patrick Süskind
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 585 voters

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,147 voters
Trainspotting by Irvine WelshInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyEnduring Love by Ian McEwan
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,044 books — 121,702 voters