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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
500 Essential Graphic Novels
939 books — 860 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Cult Classics
1,566 books — 2,139 voters

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseTheodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Best History Books
3,651 books — 3,676 voters
The Black Echo by Michael ConnellyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,195 books — 2,290 voters

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinShopgirl by Steve MartinThe Narrows by Michael ConnellyA Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,366 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettTo Have and Have Not by Ernest HemingwayThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
903 books — 1,251 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamAll My Sons by Arthur Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
830 books — 1,142 voters
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,249 books — 2,428 voters

The New Centurions by Joseph WambaughThe Onion Field by Joseph WambaughThe Stand by Stephen KingWatership Down by Richard Adams
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,928 books — 1,873 voters
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters

The Onion Field by Joseph WambaughThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Literary Mysteries
2,526 books — 4,518 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersWatership Down by Richard Adams
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,267 books — 118,689 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Aeneid by VirgilTrout Fishing in America by Richard BrautiganSherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleHerzog by Saul Bellow
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,576 books — 13,105 voters