The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazBeloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriLove Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Best Multi-Ethnic American Literature
297 books — 143 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfBeloved by Toni Morrison
Most Difficult Novels
600 books — 2,063 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,877 books — 49,834 voters
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Best American Historical Fiction
466 books — 385 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,846 books — 22,406 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyUlysses by James Joyce
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,199 books — 11,115 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,600 books — 124,075 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckHerzog by Saul BellowThe Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 284 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,096 books — 5,980 voters