The Time Machine by H.G. Wells11/22/63 by Stephen  KingA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Time Travel Fiction
2,155 books — 5,433 voters

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerThe Big Short by Michael   LewisOne Summer by Bill Bryson
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,720 books — 14,356 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
483 books — 1,148 voters

The Book of Basketball by Bill SimmonsA Season on the Brink by John FeinsteinLoose Balls by Terry PlutoThey Call Me Coach by John Wooden
Tales from the Hardwood
281 books — 159 voters
Deliverance by James DickeyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Literary Fiction
1,591 books — 1,563 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,819 voters
Seabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe World Is Flat by Thomas L. FriedmanThe Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,373 voters

The Shining by Stephen  KingDeliverance by James DickeyThe Water Is Wide by Pat ConroyThe Lords of Discipline by Pat ConroyThe Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,949 books — 1,885 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonLoose Balls by Terry Pluto
Best Humorous Books
4,420 books — 8,080 voters

Blood River by Tim Butcher
Best Books Ever
78,161 books — 291,485 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLord of the Flies by William GoldingOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,517 books — 123,797 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Big Short by Michael   LewisThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,831 books — 22,347 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William Golding
Foreign Lands
2,379 books — 2,258 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerTravels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Favorite Travel Books
2,047 books — 3,958 voters

Friday Night Lights by H.G. BissingerFlash Boys by Michael   LewisCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerBarbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,260 books — 8,103 voters
This Present Darkness by Frank E. PerettiThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerFast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
What To Read Next
20,912 books — 24,931 voters