Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
2,981 books — 12,439 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,329 voters
Generation X by Douglas CouplandBlindness by José Saramago
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,434 books — 8,420 voters

Generation X by Douglas CouplandGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters
Lucky by Alice SeboldLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'NeillBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleWasted by Marya Hornbacher
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,232 books — 3,912 voters

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Great Debut Novels
1,576 books — 1,472 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersHedda Gabler by Henrik IbsenA Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Suicide
706 books — 494 voters

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesBlindness by José SaramagoThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,680 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn Beauty by Zadie SmithProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Classics 101
441 books — 113 voters

The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Female Lead Characters
4,842 books — 5,899 voters
Perfume by Patrick SüskindGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,655 books — 120,501 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Plague by Albert CamusRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
The Awakening by Kate ChopinBlindness by José SaramagoExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books Ever
76,477 books — 284,502 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Summer Reading 2011
62 books — 92 voters
Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Best Feminist Books
2,541 books — 3,536 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBlindness by José SaramagoClose Range by Annie Proulx
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 258 voters
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Unhappy Marriages
485 books — 289 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,828 books — 21,996 voters