Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Good Reading's 100 Significant Books
100 books — 56 voters
The Engagement by Georges Simenon
Best Books of Georges Simenon
85 books — 59 voters

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,367 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerArms and the Man by George Bernard ShawHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 499 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyDance Dance Dance by Haruki MurakamiLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichLibra by Don DeLillo
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,252 books — 2,429 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiA Very Long Engagement by Sébastien JaprisotTrainspotting by Irvine WelshAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyAngel Angel by April Stevens
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,140 books — 3,671 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Best Books Ever
75,373 books — 279,895 voters