The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,017 books — 2,550 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,367 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,697 books — 25,900 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
528 books — 1,890 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Books that make you think.
1,115 books — 1,064 voters