Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia BlockWitch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
Best Young Adult Fiction
3,596 books — 6,911 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Historical Fiction
7,408 books — 25,589 voters

Graceling by Kristin CashoreGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Odyssey by HomerJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,189 books — 25,735 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,575 books — 120,230 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,782 voters
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Rivers Flow to the Sea by alison-mcghee
Best Depressing Books
429 books — 429 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisLord of the Flies by William GoldingOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books Ever
76,282 books — 283,691 voters