The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac AsimovA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Puppet Masters by Robert A. HeinleinMethuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
Classic Science Fiction - 1950-1959
275 books — 272 voters
Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiThe Speed of Dark by Elizabeth MoonHominids by Robert J. SawyerCloud Atlas by David  Mitchell
Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009
309 books — 241 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonDoomsday Book by Connie WillisParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerSlow River by Nicola Griffith
Classic Science Fiction - 1990-1999
326 books — 184 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodHyperion by Dan SimmonsStartide Rising by David Brin
Classic Science Fiction - 1980-1989
303 books — 261 voters

The Forever War by Joe HaldemanThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinTo Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José FarmerA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Classic Science Fiction - 1970-1979
274 books — 248 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Classic Science Fiction - 1960-1969
293 books — 246 voters

The Passage of Power by Robert A. CaroBuilding Stories by Chris WareThe Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
New York Times' 10 Best Books Of 2012
11 books — 10 voters
Just Above My Head by James BaldwinSonny's Blues by James BaldwinAnother Country by James Baldwin
Best of James Baldwin
27 books — 83 voters

The Time of Our Singing by Richard PowersThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonNog by Rudolph WurlitzerDance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy11/22/63 by Stephen  King
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
193 books — 240 voters
The Gary Snyder Reader by Gary SnyderTurtle Island by Gary SnyderDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaBlues People by Amiri BarakaThe Dead Lecturer by Amiri Baraka
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonRecollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di PrimaMemoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di PrimaPoems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 by Denise LevertovCollected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 by Denise Levertov
Women Beats
18 books — 8 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanCloud Atlas by David  MitchellThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanGilead by Marilynne RobinsonAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,828 books — 21,998 voters

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath77 Dream Songs by John BerrymanNeon Vernacular by Yusef KomunyakaaAnnie Allen by Gwendolyn BrooksPictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
Pulitzer Winners: Poetry
103 books — 54 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,784 voters

Chronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester BangsBound for Glory by Woody GuthrieMiles by Miles DavisCan't Buy Me Love by Jonathan    Gould
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,445 books — 1,344 voters
The Time of Our Singing by Richard PowersA Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner
Best Music Books
412 books — 184 voters

Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,366 voters
Another Country by James Baldwin
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,778 voters

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,765 books — 1,647 voters
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
clockwork worlds
27 books — 8 voters

Antony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,239 voters
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters