The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,372 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 389 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 — 306 voters
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
235 books — 401 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
378 books — 415 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
493 books — 502 voters

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
534 books — 778 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
779 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
909 books — 1,259 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
824 books — 1,150 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,195 books — 1,515 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
1,434 books — 1,777 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
2,255 books — 2,435 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,156 books — 3,681 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,521 books — 123,824 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,831 books — 22,350 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Historical Fiction
7,871 books — 26,216 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
132 books — 231 voters