11/22/63 by Stephen  King
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7,717 books — 14,299 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJoy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,257 voters

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
777 books — 1,131 voters
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 777 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,512 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,217 books — 28,368 voters

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
825 books — 1,148 voters
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezMatilda by Roald DahlThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  Harris
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,434 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 387 voters
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Shining by Stephen  KingThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughRoots by Alex HaleyThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,885 voters