Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLife of Pi by Yann MartelCharlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Best Books Ever
76,236 books — 283,509 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,508 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,143 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,254 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
466 books — 854 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBossypants by Tina Fey
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,686 books — 14,174 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingWicked by Gregory MaguireShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambI Know This Much Is True by Wally LambThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,677 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,375 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael    Connelly
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,316 books — 15,568 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Funny Women Memoirs
455 books — 1,550 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
529 books — 1,888 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Historical Fiction
7,406 books — 25,587 voters