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
77,109 books — 287,005 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 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
1,185 books — 1,510 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,146 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
907 books — 1,256 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 777 voters

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
473 books — 857 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBossypants by Tina Fey
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,701 books — 14,262 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,431 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher'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
3,140 books — 3,678 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
7,187 books — 28,370 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael    Connelly
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,353 books — 15,935 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Funny Women Memoirs
461 books — 1,552 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
533 books — 1,887 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Historical Fiction
7,557 books — 25,768 voters