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Freedom by Jonathan FranzenBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,018 voters
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,936 books — 1,870 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
835 books — 1,142 voters
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 773 voters

Housekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Books Set in Idaho
371 books — 81 voters
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Paris Library by Janet Skeslien CharlesHow Beautiful We Were by Imbolo MbueFake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutYour Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
325 books — 698 voters
Mr. Bump by Roger HargreavesWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Books that Sound So Much More Interesting If One Removes the Last Letter of the Title
1,189 books — 246 voters

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganTenth of December by George SaundersFreedom by Jonathan FranzenThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazWhen I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature
48 books — 58 voters
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Flavorwire's 50 Essential Mystery Novels
51 books — 45 voters

The First Man by Albert Camus
All about Camus
43 books — 78 voters
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The essential Philip Roth reader
14 books — 7 voters

Godforsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal
Oprah's Summer Reading Lists 2012 and 2013
77 books — 33 voters
The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna BrooksLost At Sea by Jon RonsonThe Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
335 books — 272 voters

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady UdallThe Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
Alternative Mormon Literature
83 books — 48 voters
Godless by Pete Hautman
Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality
1,374 books — 1,108 voters

The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
The Daily Show Reading Club
338 books — 232 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas AdamsThe Trial and Death of Socrates by PlatoAnimal Farm by George OrwellDiary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Books I Finished Within 24 Hours Of Starting It
665 books — 240 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
World's Greatest Novellas
713 books — 1,437 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,190 books — 1,503 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,351 books — 1,777 voters
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,252 books — 2,422 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José SaramagoGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,670 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,250 voters

Matilda by Roald Dahl
BBC Top 200 Books
201 books — 115 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Best General Science Books
580 books — 483 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
30 Books Everyone Should Read Before 30
147 books — 67 voters
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Books Containing Dangerous Ideas
166 books — 110 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,382 voters
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone
Books About Google
21 books — 21 voters


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