The Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingThe Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
497 books — 513 voters
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonKim by Rudyard KiplingLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
480 books — 866 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,132 books — 3,697 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,921 books — 1,900 voters

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezDune by Frank Herbert
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,405 books — 1,786 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,166 books — 1,525 voters

1984 by George OrwellHiroshima by John HerseyCannery Row by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
815 books — 1,162 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteJoy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
876 books — 1,265 voters

We by Yevgeny ZamyatinThe House at Pooh Corner by A.A. MilneThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotGentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
758 books — 1,137 voters
Tree by Jim BalogAtlas of Nevada Conifers by David Alan CharletMade for Each Other by Ronald M. LannerLooking for Longleaf by Lawrence S. EarleyA Natural History of Conifers by Aljos Farjon
Best Books About Trees
160 books — 71 voters

Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
Books about Silent Movies
171 books — 78 voters