Stone Girl, Bone Girl by Laurence Anholt
Mary Anning - Fiction & Non-Fiction
18 books — 13 voters
Persuasion by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane Austen
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 327 voters

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 151 voters
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeYoung Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
237 books — 218 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeAnnabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 386 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Professor by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 304 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottWives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 399 voters
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native by Thomas HardyLittle Men by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 347 voters

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 414 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
472 books — 502 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
482 books — 857 voters
Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonThe Forged Coupon by Leo TolstoyPygmalion by George Bernard ShawMy Man Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 777 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
770 books — 1,131 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAddress Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann TaylorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonLost Horizon by James Hilton
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,255 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellEmbers by Sándor Márai
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,147 voters
The Crucible by Arthur MillerNight by Elie WieselFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,185 books — 1,511 voters

The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteA Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo AnayaSula by Toni MorrisonCeremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoMetropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,884 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMaus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,432 voters
The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Samurai's Garden by Gail TsukiyamaLucy by Jamaica KincaidAmerican Pastoral by Philip Roth
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise ErdrichAll for Nothing by Walter Kempowski
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,366 voters
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghyRun Towards the Danger by Sarah PolleySwimming in the Dark by Tomasz JedrowskiThe Bear by Andrew Krivak
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,954 books — 5,478 voters

Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
Best Books of 2022
1,550 books — 1,855 voters
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
SF & Theology
242 books — 293 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Quality Dark Fiction
2,549 books — 3,267 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Books about Books
1,385 books — 1,519 voters


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