Sex and the City by Candace BushnellConfessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie KinsellaThe Giver by Lois LowryAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandWicked by Gregory Maguire
The Worst Books of All Time
8,104 books — 19,875 voters
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Dorothy, A Publishing Project
33 books — 28 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThat Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. HintonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareTex by S.E. Hinton
Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
2,663 books — 12,166 voters

The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn KeeneThe Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn KeeneThe Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn KeeneThe Haunted Showboat by Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
63 books — 88 voters
The Dead of Jericho by Colin DexterThe Lady in the Lake by Raymond ChandlerThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettSkinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,206 books — 2,294 voters

The Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Detective Fiction
1,187 books — 1,082 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,132 voters

Mildred Pierce by James M. CainReflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
Best Books 1941
55 books — 24 voters
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Best Children's Historical Fiction
827 books — 829 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerHiroshima by John HerseyThe Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott FitzgeraldAntigone by Jean Anouilh
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,143 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Best Books 1937
77 books — 39 voters

The Batman Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bill Finger
Best of Batman
622 books — 932 voters
Sex and the City by Candace BushnellAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Books I Regret Reading
2,300 books — 3,224 voters