Memorial Drive by Natasha TretheweyI’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
2,793 books — 4,914 voters
Doubt by John Patrick ShanleyGlengarry Glen Ross by David MametAmadeus by Peter ShafferBetrayal by Harold PinterThe Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Best Plays Ever
859 books — 1,125 voters

Ant Colony by Michael DeForgeGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Cosmicomics by Italo CalvinoThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Siege by Ismail Kadare
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,070 books — 66,802 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 632 voters

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosCandide by VoltaireThe Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,855 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 772 voters
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton WilderThe Holy Terrors by Jean CocteauMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
766 books — 1,133 voters

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn WaughRebecca by Daphne du MaurierVile Bodies by Evelyn WaughBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAppointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,249 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Pearl by John Steinbeck1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
835 books — 1,141 voters

Cosmicomics by Italo CalvinoThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,351 books — 1,776 voters
Amadeus by Peter ShafferBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Siege by Ismail KadareThe Norman Conquests by Alan AyckbournBetrayal by Harold Pinter
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,936 books — 1,870 voters

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeGlengarry Glen Ross by David MametThe White Hotel by D.M. ThomasGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,252 books — 2,422 voters
Blindness by José SaramagoThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketThe Seinfeld Scripts by Jerry SeinfeldI Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,669 voters

Doubt, a Parable by John Patrick ShanleyBodyWorld by Dash ShawCaim by José SaramagoThe Terror by Dan Simmons
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,224 books — 28,362 voters
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoAnt Colony by Michael DeForgeThe Disaster Artist by Greg SesteroAn Untamed State by Roxane GayOne of Us by Åsne Seierstad
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,011 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteLolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Visit by Friedrich DürrenmattThe Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,190 books — 1,502 voters