The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Tales of New York City
1,506 books — 1,215 voters
Orfeo by Richard PowersThe Overstory by Richard Powers
Best of Richard Powers
15 books — 23 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganFreedom by Jonathan FranzenAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam  Johnson
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,644 books — 14,149 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 324 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheKnickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Awakening by Kate ChopinHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 501 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 345 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Cossacks by Leo TolstoyThe Marble Faun by Nathaniel HawthorneIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 397 voters

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related T... by Edgar Allan PoeThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolFaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTwice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 235 voters
The Pioneers by James Fenimore CooperHope Leslie by Catharine Maria SedgwickThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 150 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 301 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassTypee by Herman MelvilleMosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 383 voters

The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 205 voters
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,198 books — 68,030 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Hours by Michael CunninghamInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerFifth Business by Robertson Davies
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,255 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,133 voters

Howards End by E.M. ForsterA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordDubliners by James Joyce
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters
The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
465 books — 855 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLolita by Vladimir NabokovOn the Road by Jack KerouacInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,509 voters
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughCannery Row by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
831 books — 1,144 voters