The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerReplay by Ken GrimwoodThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,974 books — 5,258 voters
In a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonThe Martian by Andy WeirWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleSh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
Best Humorous Books
4,346 books — 7,949 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. WellsDracula by Bram StokerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 500 voters
The Gift of the Magi by O. HenryThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 854 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsRoots by Alex HaleyThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughTuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,955 books — 1,880 voters
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Best Books of 1986
339 books — 171 voters

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Oprah's Book Club Picks
124 books — 2,201 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books Ever
76,704 books — 285,079 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 776 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,255 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellStuart Little by E.B. White
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
820 books — 1,145 voters
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesLord of the Flies by William GoldingEast of Eden by John SteinbeckNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,182 books — 1,510 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,778 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayReplay by Ken Grimwood
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,433 voters
Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Martian by Andy WeirReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionLife After Life by Kate Atkinson
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,688 books — 14,211 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHouse of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIIThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantAhab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettLoving Frank by Nancy HoranThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,186 books — 28,369 voters