The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2011: What the Over 35s Have Read So Far
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeNight by Elie WieselI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
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If I Were Stranded On a Desert Island...
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Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,218 books — 28,368 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantRoots by Alex Haley
Best Historical Fiction
7,709 books — 25,959 voters

Roots by Alex Haley
Books about American slavery
407 books — 406 voters
Roots by Alex HaleyI Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,796 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
619 books — 1,640 voters
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Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
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What To Read Next
20,738 books — 24,730 voters
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Best Books of 2008
1,643 books — 6,772 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books Ever
77,421 books — 288,954 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,447 books — 69,403 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Disappointing Books
2,733 books — 4,602 voters