The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Baroque Cycle Collection by Neal StephensonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,602 books — 25,099 voters
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
Best 1700s Historical Fiction
99 books — 161 voters

The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,704 books — 14,279 voters
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise ErdrichThe Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichThree Day Road by Joseph BoydenThe Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,185 books — 28,367 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,775 voters
Love Medicine by Louise ErdrichA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,433 voters

The Spirit Level by Seamus HeaneyGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSeeing Things by Seamus HeaneyReading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
776 books — 1,131 voters

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'BrienThe Country of Marriage by Wendell BerryChild of God by Cormac McCarthySong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,884 voters
The Crucible by Arthur MillerCheyenne Autumn by Mari SandozThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Once and Future King by T.H. White
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,512 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,728 books — 6,889 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Plague by Albert CamusAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
821 books — 1,148 voters

Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellThe 42nd Parallel by John Dos PassosU.S.A. by John Dos PassosSnow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,256 voters