Junky by William S. Burroughs
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,182 books — 1,509 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
819 books — 1,144 voters

Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerAsk the Dust by John FanteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGod's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,254 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamUno, nessuno e centomila by Luigi PirandelloBabbitt by Sinclair LewisThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters

Candide by VoltaireMoll Flanders by Daniel DefoeThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Dying Animal by Philip RothThe Long Tail by Chris AndersonThe Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,828 books — 21,995 voters

Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerAsk the Dust by John FanteNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyPinocchio by Carlo CollodiThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,876 voters

Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ask the Dust by John FanteA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,653 books — 120,513 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeTwilight of the Idols by Friedrich NietzscheThe Flood by Émile ZolaTales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Librivox
82 books — 8 voters