The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Best Young Adult Books
12,988 books — 80,063 voters
Watchmen by Alan             MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiFun Home by Alison BechdelBlacksad by Juan Díaz Canales
Best Graphic Novels
3,433 books — 6,754 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Books Ever
74,780 books — 277,424 voters
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonBeloved by Toni MorrisonNative Son by Richard WrightCane by Jean ToomerAnd Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
623 books — 291 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueWit by Margaret EdsonA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
Saddest Books
493 books — 722 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best Southern Literature
1,331 books — 2,573 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,186 books — 117,773 voters
The Good War by Studs Terkel
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,095 books — 2,325 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Best War Novels
1,657 books — 1,376 voters
The Angel Experiment by James  Patterson
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,067 books — 66,644 voters

Candide by VoltaireLyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDracula by Bram StokerAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,853 voters

Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck PalahniukOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,735 voters