The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,375 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 234 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 381 voters
Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 300 voters

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 396 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 410 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 500 voters
Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 774 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman MelvillePassing by Nella Larsen
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
764 books — 1,133 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,254 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
831 books — 1,144 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,180 books — 1,509 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,354 books — 1,780 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaBeloved by Toni MorrisonSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,433 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,676 voters
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,395 books — 119,650 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,926 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Historical Fiction
7,318 books — 25,519 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
126 books — 224 voters