The Neverending Story by Michael EndeRagtime by E.L. DoctorowInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaThe Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,881 voters
The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonWhite Fang by Jack LondonA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 855 voters

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,129 voters
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
237 books — 218 voters