The Passion of New Eve by Angela CarterTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Best Gender-Bending Books
610 books — 457 voters
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,366 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,778 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovOn the Road by Jack KerouacEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,182 books — 1,509 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,955 books — 1,879 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Lover by Marguerite Duras
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,259 books — 2,432 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Subtle Knife by Philip PullmanThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,679 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSix Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickJaws by Peter BenchleyJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,101 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Dark Humor
726 books — 1,632 voters

The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyDubliners by James JoyceThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,041 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,419 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,726 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,042 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiFables, Vol. 1 by Bill WillinghamSafe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco
Best Graphic Novels
3,450 books — 6,767 voters
Sabriel by Garth NixA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,481 books — 1,786 voters