Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
824 books — 1,149 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 857 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Giver by Lois LowryBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,680 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Memoirs by Women
3,207 books — 3,214 voters
The Iliad by Homer
Favorite Translated Literature
1,046 books — 504 voters

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Historical Fiction
7,801 books — 26,121 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
77,851 books — 290,478 voters