The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
101 books — 479 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,755 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisThe Last Lion by William Manchester
Best History Books
3,671 books — 3,700 voters

The Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonBuddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
466 books — 854 voters
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
325 books — 699 voters

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersCommon Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas PaineThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,005 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,862 voters