The Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziFairy Tale by Stephen  KingSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelThe Cartographers by Peng ShepherdUpgrade by Blake Crouch
Best Books of 2022
1,550 books — 1,855 voters
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. SchwabKing Sorrow by Joe  HillThe Shattering Peace by John ScalziNever Flinch by Stephen  KingThe Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Best Books of 2025
554 books — 171 voters

You Like It Darker by Stephen  KingThe Hunter by Tana FrenchThe Women by Kristin HannahSomewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. KluneJames by Percival Everett
Best Books of 2024
871 books — 937 voters
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneThe Splendid and the Vile by Erik LarsonTroubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Best Books of 2020
1,567 books — 1,942 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George OrwellStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelReady Player One by Ernest Cline
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,933 books — 26,184 voters
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. KluneA Fever in the Heartland by Timothy EganThe Hexologists by Josiah BancroftThe Wager by David GrannThe Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
Best Books of 2023
1,231 books — 1,839 voters

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret WeisDragons of Winter Night by Margaret WeisDragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret WeisThe Talisman by Stephen  KingTime of the Twins by Margaret Weis
Best Fantasy of the 80s
343 books — 692 voters
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret WeisDragons of Winter Night by Margaret WeisDragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret WeisTime of the Twins by Margaret WeisWar of the Twins by Margaret Weis
The Best of Dragonlance
54 books — 102 voters

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret WeisMistborn by Brandon SandersonA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. SchwabThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,427 books — 26,371 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,002 books — 2,595 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrSarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Best Historical Fiction
7,729 books — 25,977 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Overstory by Richard PowersUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Martian by Andy Weir
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,717 books — 14,292 voters

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Splendid and the Vile by Erik LarsonIn the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,978 books — 5,483 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Last Season by Eric BlehmFinding Everett Ruess by David  RobertsSavage Harvest by Carl HoffmanThe Lost City of Z by David Grann
What happened to them?
57 books — 48 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten TroostWild by Cheryl Strayed
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,151 books — 1,879 voters
The Stand by Stephen  KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen  King11/22/63 by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  KingThe Institute by Stephen  King
Best of Stephen King
201 books — 3,881 voters