Hell of a Book by Jason MottDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverShuggie Bain by Douglas   StuartThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,995 books — 5,516 voters
The Round House by Louise ErdrichBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,720 books — 14,338 voters

O Pioneers! by Willa CatherWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
534 books — 778 voters
Orlando by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Trial by Franz KafkaTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,133 voters

Native Son by Richard WrightThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1984 by George OrwellAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenCannery Row by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
824 books — 1,150 voters
Sula by Toni MorrisonThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,957 books — 1,886 voters

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,682 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Assistant by Bernard MalamudEast of Eden by John SteinbeckNight by Elie WieselThe Natural by Bernard Malamud
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,515 voters

The Fixer by Bernard MalamudTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters
As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLight in August by William FaulknerThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
909 books — 1,259 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Counterlife by Philip RothThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,436 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,216 books — 28,372 voters