The Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonNorth and South by John Jakes
Best Southern Books
829 books — 739 voters
Forrest Gump by Winston GroomThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerJumanji by Chris Van AllsburgMary Poppins by P.L. TraversCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,221 books — 6,122 voters

Lost Horizon by James HiltonBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
102 books — 116 voters
Wool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyWorld War Z by Max BrooksLittle Brother by Cory DoctorowThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,261 books — 9,072 voters

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonA Walk to Remember by Nicholas SparksThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieTwisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Teen Books About Real Problems
2,991 books — 12,439 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Help by Kathryn StockettAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Best Books Ever
77,086 books — 286,763 voters

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han NolanMaus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
495 books — 790 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John  GrayThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Everyone's Read It But Me
774 books — 4,400 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Best South Asian Fiction
744 books — 1,907 voters
Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini TaylorInto the Still Blue by Veronica RossiRuin and Rising by Leigh BardugoRaging Star by Moira Young
YA Novels of 2014
1,514 books — 8,778 voters

Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Real Stories
229 books — 63 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesAmerican Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
NPR
162 books — 150 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Lifeboat by Charlotte RoganThe Day Before by Lisa SchroederA Good American by Alex GeorgeThe Darlings by Cristina Alger
Summer Reading 2012 MKG
68 books — 47 voters
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
YA Novels of 2012
1,246 books — 10,178 voters

Insurgent by Veronica RothThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenFever by Lauren DeStefanoCinder by Marissa Meyer
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,517 books — 15,074 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyFeed by M.T. Anderson
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,834 books — 26,080 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang300 by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,454 books — 6,775 voters
Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Newbery 2010
112 books — 500 voters

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Best Young Adult Books
13,155 books — 80,228 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Known World by Edward P. JonesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,371 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,563 books — 18,683 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPeople of the Book by Geraldine BrooksThe Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,775 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Best Books of 2009
1,764 books — 6,930 voters