Great Expectations by Charles DickensFranny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1,430 books — 1,402 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckTracks by Robyn DavidsonThe Lost City of Z by David GrannWild by Cheryl Strayed
Wanderlust
1,109 books — 1,244 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyYol by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,153 books — 27,064 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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7,801 books — 49,897 voters