The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Young Adult Books
12,763 books — 83,783 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
949 books — 696 voters

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelQuatrevingt-treize by Victor HugoLes dieux ont soif by Anatole France
Fiction Set During French Revolution
34 books — 60 voters
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelThe Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de TocquevilleNinety-Three by Victor HugoThe Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
The French Revolution
228 books — 290 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPossession by A.S. ByattMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books by Female Authors
1,362 books — 545 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Outsider by Albert CamusDown and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Penguin Modern Classics
401 books — 478 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodCaptain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de BernièresSuite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Vintage 21
21 books — 28 voters

The Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyThe Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
Best Family Sagas
617 books — 780 voters
Homenatge a Catalunya by George OrwellCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Your Top 5 Reads in 2012
717 books — 846 voters

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesRagnarok by A.S. ByattThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellBring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,717 books — 14,402 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,220 books — 2,416 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,345 books — 1,773 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,198 books — 1,542 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
820 books — 1,128 voters
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Musical Instruments
417 books — 81 voters

A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethBurmese Days by George Orwell
Best South Asian Fiction
715 books — 1,969 voters
1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,125 books — 24,656 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Suitable Boy by Vikram SethPossession by A.S. ByattA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryCorelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,120 books — 3,660 voters
Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierLe maître des âmes by Irène NémirovskyJezabel by Nemirovsky
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
915 books — 1,240 voters

Eugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,707 books — 6,838 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinA Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail BulgakovA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
761 books — 1,131 voters

Eragon by Christopher PaoliniA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Series I've Given Up On...
991 books — 3,427 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryA Suitable Boy by Vikram SethThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Best Indian Fiction Books
903 books — 2,707 voters


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