The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe World According to Garp by John IrvingRabbit Is Rich by John UpdikeThe Centaur by John UpdikeWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
National Book Award Winners
251 books — 212 voters

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 147 voters
Libra by Don DeLillo
Fictitious Kennedy
90 books — 23 voters

Rabbit at Rest by John UpdikeFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisSailor Song by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,131 books — 3,698 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Best Southern Literature
1,419 books — 2,697 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,228 books — 125,885 voters
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I Honestly LOL'd
914 books — 1,218 voters

The Dirt by Tommy LeeSlash by SlashThe Heroin Diaries by Nikki SixxFargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
Best Books on Rock and Roll
908 books — 1,292 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Dirt by Tommy LeeA Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,208 books — 28,383 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lord of the Flies by William GoldingA Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,166 books — 1,526 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Moon Is Down by John SteinbeckFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,161 voters

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rabbit Redux by John UpdikeThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDeliverance by James DickeyRumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,921 books — 1,899 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,137 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,320 books — 2,451 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph HellerCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dark Humor
756 books — 1,760 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
44 books — 211 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
World War II Fiction
1,511 books — 2,308 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckRabbit, Run by John UpdikeOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckRabbit Redux by John UpdikeThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Journey Through Literary America
166 books — 236 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Worst Books of All Time
8,126 books — 19,913 voters

Favorite Travel Books
2,054 books — 4,000 voters
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey1984 by George OrwellRabbit, Run by John UpdikeEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,897 voters