The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 855 voters
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,129 voters

Snow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,135 books — 3,678 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,432 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsRoots by Alex HaleyThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,881 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,777 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyHorton Hears a Who! by Dr. SeussThe Borrowers by Mary Norton
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,185 books — 1,509 voters
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du BoisThe Horse's Mouth by Joyce CaryHiroshima by John HerseyThe Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
822 books — 1,145 voters