Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,782 voters