The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael ChabonAn American Childhood by Annie Dillard
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98 books — 68 voters

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books About College Life
747 books — 268 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenTelegraph Avenue by Michael ChabonNW by Zadie Smith
2013 Tournament of Books Watch List
64 books — 379 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Best Books of 2012
3,523 books — 9,203 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Crucible by Arthur MillerA Separate Peace by John Knowles
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,508 voters

Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultChange of Heart by Jodi PicoultThe Tenth Circle by Jodi PicoultSalem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Best Jodi Picoult Books
29 books — 1,653 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenPaper Towns by John Green
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
2,980 books — 12,436 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Postmodern Genius
508 books — 584 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,130 books — 3,678 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John GreenA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Best Coming of Age Stories
1,300 books — 1,130 voters

A Separate Peace by John KnowlesThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
New England Books
787 books — 386 voters
A Separate Peace by John KnowlesPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Giver by Lois LowryHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,657 books — 10,270 voters

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2012 Tournament of Books
16 books — 245 voters