Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Age of Reason by Thomas PaineLogic by Immanuel KantOn Education by Immanuel KantElements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander    Stewart
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters
The Vampyre by John William PolidoriRose Red and Snow White by Ruth Sanderson
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 326 voters

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreLamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems by John KeatsThe Talisman by Walter  Scott
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 150 voters
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenFaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTwice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
237 books — 217 voters

The Raven by Edgar Allan PoeDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan PoeThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 385 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 304 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 399 voters
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBlack Beauty by Anna SewellCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 347 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 414 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
471 books — 500 voters

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
481 books — 857 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryThe Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse by Beatrix Potter
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 777 voters

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneSiddhartha by Hermann HesseUlysses by James JoyceThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,131 voters
Madeline by Ludwig BemelmansDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,256 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Plague by Albert CamusGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,147 voters
A Separate Peace by John KnowlesThe Borrowers by Mary NortonThe Fall by Albert CamusHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,185 books — 1,511 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonEncyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters
Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinGo Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,884 voters

The Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,431 voters
The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,140 books — 3,678 voters

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanReady Player One by Ernest Cline
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,701 books — 14,268 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,886 books — 49,792 voters