Here are the top 150 books selected by our voters! We compiled the top 100 Adult and YA titles, as well as the top 50 Children’s titles. Scroll down to view all 150 selected books on this page or download PDFs of either list.
| 1 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 2 | A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas |
| 3 | A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen |
| 4 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
| 5 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| 6 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 7 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| 8 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| 9 | American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| 10 | Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| 11 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman |
| 12 | Beauty Queens | Libba Bray |
| 13 | Better Than the Movies | Lynn Painter |
| 14 | Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel |
| 15 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 16 | Camino Ghosts | John Grisham |
| 17 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 18 | Chesapeake | James A Michener |
| 19 | Dewey | Vicki Myron/Brett Witter |
| 20 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 21 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| 22 | Elephant Company | Vicki Croke |
| 23 | Everything Is Tuberculosis | John Green |
| 24 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 25 | Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros |
| 26 | Gone Before Goodbye | Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon |
| 27 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| 28 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 29 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 30 | How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories | Holly Black |
| 31 | If It Makes You Happy | Julie Olivia |
| 32 | In the Woods | Tana French |
| 33 | Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
| 34 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| 35 | Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 36 | Lessons In Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
| 37 | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson |
| 38 | Lilac Girls | Martha Hall Kelly |
| 39 | Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade | Janet Skeslien Charles |
| 40 | My Friends | Fredrik Backman |
| 41 | Night Swimming | Aaron Starmer |
| 42 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 43 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown |
| 44 | Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt |
| 45 | Room | Emma Donoghue |
| 46 | Run | Ann Patchett |
| 47 | Sense & Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| 48 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 49 | Spectacular Things | Beck Dorey-Stein |
| 50 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 51 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| 52 | The Boy The Mole The Horse and The Fox | Charles Mackesy |
| 53 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
| 54 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| 55 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| 56 | The Cider House Rules | John Irving |
| 57 | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race | Walter Isaacson |
| 58 | The Correspondent | Virginia Evans |
| 59 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 60 | The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese |
| 61 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| 62 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| 63 | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett |
| 64 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| 65 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 66 | The Frozen River | Ariel Lawhon |
| 67 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 68 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 69 | The Good Sister | Sally Hepworth |
| 70 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
| 71 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 72 | The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah |
| 73 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 74 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| 75 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
| 76 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 77 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| 78 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie |
| 79 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
| 80 | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
| 81 | The Only One Left | Riley Sager |
| 82 | The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| 83 | The Path Between the Seas | David McCullough |
| 84 | The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray |
| 85 | The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo |
| 86 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 87 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| 88 | The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides |
| 89 | The Sound and The Fury | William Faulkner |
| 90 | The Stand | Stephen King |
| 91 | The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman |
| 92 | The Women | Kristin Hannah |
| 93 | Theft | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| 94 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 95 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett |
| 96 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| 97 | Water Moon | Samantha Sotto |
| 98 | West With the Night | Beryl Markham |
| 99 | When the World Fell Silent | Donna Alward |
| 100 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| 1 | A Loud Winter’s Nap | Katy Hudson |
| 2 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
| 3 | Bedtime Stories | Lisa Sheehan |
| 4 | Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey |
| 5 | Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
| 6 | Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White |
| 7 | Cozy | Jan Brett |
| 8 | Elephant & Piggie | Mo Willems |
| 9 | Elephants Cannot Dance! | Mo Willems |
| 10 | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| 11 | Evelyn Witch Gets a Pet | Beth Ferry |
| 12 | Friends | Daniela Sosa |
| 13 | Frog and Toad Are Friends | Arnold Lobel |
| 14 | Frozen | Victoria Saxon |
| 15 | Harry Potter series | J.K. Rowling |
| 16 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 17 | Iggy Peck Architect | Andrea Beaty |
| 18 | Jack and the Beanstalk | Blake A. Hoena |
| 19 | Knuffle Bunny | Mo Willems |
| 20 | Lights That Dance in the Night | Yuval Zommer |
| 21 | Little Beaver and the Echo | Amy McDonald |
| 22 | Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 23 | Llama Llama | Anna Dewdney |
| 24 | Love You Forever | Robert N Munsch |
| 25 | Luke and Lottie. It’s Halloween! | Ruth Wielockx |
| 26 | Mad Mad Bear! | Kimberly Gee |
| 27 | My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George |
| 28 | Oh the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss |
| 29 | Peppa Pig | Various |
| 30 | Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme | Betsy Bird |
| 31 | Santa Mouse | Michael Brown |
| 32 | Snowy Day | Anna Milbourne |
| 33 | Spy School | Stuart Gibbs |
| 34 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton |
| 35 | The Christmas Surprise | Maggie Kneen |
| 36 | The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit | Emma Thompson |
| 37 | The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt |
| 38 | The Fox on the Swing | Evelina Daciute |
| 39 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 40 | The Littlest Drop | Sascha Alper |
| 41 | The Pigeon series | Mo Willems |
| 42 | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
| 43 | The Pout-Pout Fish | Deborah Diesen |
| 44 | The Secret Garden | Francis Hodgson Burnett |
| 45 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
| 46 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| 47 | Twas the Night Before Christmas | Clement Moore |
| 48 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein |
| 49 | Where’s Spot? | Eric Hill |
| 50 | Xolo | Donna Barba Higuera |