I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. SeussThe Godfather by Mario PuzoA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,777 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovJunky by William S. BurroughsThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,516 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerDubliners by James JoyceWatchmen by Alan MooreSuttree by Cormac McCarthyHomicide by David Simon
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradPère Goriot by Honoré de BalzacNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Angel's Command by Brian JacquesAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,374 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreA Fortunate Life by A.B. FaceyThe Names by Don DeLilloBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyJoseph Banks by Patrick O'Brian
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,255 books — 2,435 voters
Homicide by David SimonRemembering Babylon by David MaloufUnderworld by Don DeLilloMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonFever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,155 books — 3,682 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsJuno And the Paycock by Seán O'CaseyOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,134 voters

Suttree by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 186 voters
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. VogelThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganBleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,721 books — 14,366 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerDubliners by James JoyceWatchmen by Alan MooreAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoySuttree by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
78,244 books — 291,830 voters