Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
3,098 books — 12,529 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,264 books — 11,777 voters
Generation X by Douglas CouplandBlindness by José Saramago
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,683 books — 8,832 voters

Generation X by Douglas CouplandGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
582 books — 447 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
1,236 books — 4,033 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
1,607 books — 1,507 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
742 books — 505 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
3,132 books — 3,697 voters
Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn Beauty by Zadie SmithProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Classics 101
434 books — 115 voters

The Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Female Lead Characters
4,948 books — 6,425 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
33,261 books — 126,277 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Plague by Albert CamusRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 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
80,175 books — 299,027 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
3,078 books — 4,522 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBlindness by José SaramagoClose Range by Annie Proulx
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
105 books — 258 voters
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Unhappy Marriages
514 books — 358 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,816 books — 22,877 voters