The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldMasquerade by Melissa de la CruzThe Iron King by Julie KagawaThe Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Best Book Cover Art
12,394 books — 7,093 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFinding Nouf by Zoë FerrarisThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Gaudi Key by Esteban MartínCooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
Reading Places
450 books — 79 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Italy
1,011 books — 528 voters
The Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingSiddhartha by Hermann HesseSea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
India
1,031 books — 884 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Around the World in 100 Books
1,327 books — 712 voters
Finding Nouf by Zoë FerrarisThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiSea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Foreign Lands
2,379 books — 2,226 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteThe Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Tales of New York City
1,721 books — 1,292 voters
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,759 books — 8,973 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerLight in August by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,379 books — 2,596 voters
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Fantasy Books Set in Two Worlds
669 books — 632 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDiary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai GogolThe Three Sisters by Anton ChekhovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
521 books — 2,296 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,095 books — 5,819 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,893 books — 49,820 voters
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein GaarderHaroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman RushdiePaper Moon by Joe David BrownLysistrata by AristophanesEmpress by Shan Sa
Best Books Ever
78,136 books — 291,312 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëSophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,509 books — 123,739 voters