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
842 books — 750 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!
1,228 books — 6,119 voters

Lost Horizon by James HiltonBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
94 books — 112 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
1,235 books — 9,183 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
3,095 books — 12,531 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
80,140 books — 298,596 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
501 books — 796 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
783 books — 4,811 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
771 books — 1,964 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
1,541 books — 8,839 voters

Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Real Stories
236 books — 67 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesAmerican Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
NPR
162 books — 151 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
1,288 books — 10,250 voters

Insurgent by Veronica RothThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenFever by Lauren DeStefanoCinder by Marissa Meyer
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,516 books — 15,061 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
4,155 books — 27,066 voters

The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang300 by Frank Miller
Best Graphic Novels
3,529 books — 6,856 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
13,022 books — 80,509 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
7,208 books — 28,383 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
1,658 books — 18,680 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPeople of the Book by Geraldine BrooksThe Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Best Books of 2008
1,649 books — 6,772 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Best Books of 2009
1,772 books — 6,931 voters