The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Tournament of Books Winners
16 books — 5 voters
Into the Silence by Wade DavisInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerNo Shortcuts to the Top by Ed ViestursK2 by Ed ViestursDenali's Howl by Andy   Hall
Climbing and Mountaineering
216 books — 170 voters

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggThe Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Best Books of 2015
3,109 books — 5,117 voters

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam  JohnsonThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtBellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,719 books — 14,315 voters

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Burgess Boys by Elizabeth StroutThe Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriFlora by Gail Godwin
Best Books Published in 2013
3,586 books — 7,154 voters
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyShovel Ready by Adam SternberghBellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
Best Books of 2014
3,569 books — 6,451 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,748 books — 6,901 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,890 books — 49,804 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonOn Beauty by Zadie Smith
Best Books of 2005
874 books — 640 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Best Books of 2006
985 books — 748 voters

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThen We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisIn the Woods by Tana French
Best Books of 2007
1,115 books — 991 voters
The Gone-Away World by Nick HarkawayThe Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,772 voters

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannTinkers by Paul HardingThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe City & the City by China Miéville
Best Books of 2009
1,764 books — 6,928 voters
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David  MitchellJust Kids by Patti SmithA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Best Books of 2010
1,576 books — 2,471 voters

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiThe Sojourn by Andrew KrivakZone One by Colson Whitehead
Best Books of 2011
2,669 books — 6,697 voters
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam  JohnsonAngelmaker by Nick HarkawayThe Dog Stars by Peter HellerThe Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson WalkerSeating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
Best Books of 2012
3,522 books — 9,190 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Immoralist by André GidePeter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 857 voters
Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
538 books — 777 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,131 voters
The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckNarcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HesseIndependent People by Halldór Laxness
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
909 books — 1,257 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerTo the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
824 books — 1,148 voters
Foundation by Isaac AsimovI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Chrysalids by John WyndhamLolita by Vladimir NabokovLucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,512 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,775 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréHumboldt's Gift by Saul BellowThe Stand by Stephen  KingThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,885 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingWhite Noise by Don DeLilloNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,256 books — 2,434 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiEmpress of the Splendid Season by Oscar HijuelosMason's Retreat by Christopher Tilghman
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,679 voters

The Gone-Away World by Nick HarkawayIncendiary by Chris CleaveBel Canto by Ann PatchettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,217 books — 28,369 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,773 books — 18,371 voters


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