A list of the most popular books published over the past 100 years, as determined by Goodreads members' digital shelves, with some adjustments made by the Goodreads team to avoid repeats and to take into account important works.
| #1 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.87 | 149 reads | |
| #2 |  The Prophet
| 4.26 | 127 reads | |
| #3 |  We
| 3.72 | 179 reads | |
| #4 |  The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 | 2,252 reads | |
| #5 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 3.61 | 344 reads | |
| #6 |  To the Lighthouse
| 3.72 | 201 reads | |
| #7 |  The Well of Loneliness
| 2.95 | 18 reads | |
| #8 |  Passing
| 3.85 | 90 reads | |
| #9 |  As I Lay Dying
| 3.61 | 165 reads | |
| #10 |  Joy of Cooking
| 4.6 | 6 reads | |
| #11 |  Brave New World
| 3.89 | 1,740 reads | |
| #12 |  In Praise of Shadows
| 3.46 | 43 reads | |
| #13 |  Murder on the Orient Express
| 4.04 | 726 reads | |
| #14 |  Gaudy Night
| 4.25 | 30 reads | |
| #15 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 3.96 | 39 reads | |
| #16 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.97 | 249 reads | |
| #17 |  Rebecca
| 4.14 | 138 reads | |
| #18 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.79 | 527 reads | |
| #19 |  Native Son
| 4.07 | 70 reads | |
| #20 |  The Library of Babel
| 4.13 | 25 reads | |
| #21 |  The Stranger
| 3.93 | 1,201 reads | |
| #22 |  The Little Prince
| 4.21 | 1,334 reads | |
| #23 |  Ficciones
| 4.22 | 110 reads | |
| #24 |  The Glass Menagerie
| 3.83 | 109 reads | |
| #25 |  The Member of the Wedding
| 3.45 | 16 reads | |
| #26 |  No Exit
| 3.94 | 67 reads | |
| #27 |  I Capture the Castle
| 3.63 | 67 reads | |
| #28 |  1984
| 4.21 | 3,583 reads | |
| #29 |  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
| 3.96 | 1,516 reads | |
| #30 |  Foundation
| 4 | 1,014 reads | |
| #31 |  Invisible Man
| 3.8 | 166 reads | |
| #32 |  Fahrenheit 451
| 3.92 | 2,173 reads | |
| #33 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.39 | 2,214 reads | |
| #34 |  Lolita
| 3.9 | 714 reads | |
| #35 |  Giovanni's Room
| 4.36 | 155 reads | |
| #36 |  Doctor Zhivago
| 3.37 | 63 reads | |
| #37 |  Things Fall Apart
| 3.66 | 352 reads | |
| #38 |  The Haunting of Hill House
| 3.75 | 497 reads | |
| #39 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.15 | 2,339 reads | |
| #40 |  Catch-22
| 4 | 653 reads | |
| #41 |  Silent Spring
| 3.84 | 49 reads | |
| #42 |  The Bell Jar
| 3.92 | 738 reads | |
| #43 |  Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
| 4.05 | 604 reads | |
| #44 |  Dune
| 4.28 | 2,554 reads | |
| #45 |  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
| 4.22 | 62 reads | |
| #46 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.08 | 679 reads | |
| #47 |  Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| 4.1 | 62 reads | |
| #48 |  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
| 4.15 | 207 reads | |
| #49 |  The Bluest Eye
| 3.93 | 192 reads | |
| #50 |  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
| 4.07 | 28 reads | |
| #51 |  Ways of Seeing
| 4.18 | 68 reads | |
| #52 |  The Princess Bride
| 4.21 | 614 reads | |
| #53 |  Carrie
| 3.72 | 657 reads | |
| #54 |  'Salem's Lot
| 3.84 | 581 reads | |
| #55 |  The Woman Warrior
| 3 | 3 reads | |
| #56 |  Song of Solomon
| 4.32 | 87 reads | |
| #57 |  The Westing Game
| 3.89 | 211 reads | |
| #58 |  Kindred
| 4.32 | 382 reads | |
| #59 |  The Name of the Rose
| 3.99 | 356 reads | |
| #60 |  Midnight's Children
| 4.09 | 124 reads | |
| #61 |  The Color Purple
| 4.13 | 363 reads | |
| #62 |  The Queen's Gambit
| 4.08 | 125 reads | |
| #63 |  The House on Mango Street
| 3.72 | 163 reads | |
| #64 |  The Handmaid's Tale
| 4.09 | 1,528 reads | |
| #65 |  Howl's Moving Castle
| 4.16 | 582 reads | |
| #66 |  Watchmen
| 4.45 | 861 reads | |
| #67 |  The Alchemist
| 3.49 | 1,505 reads | |
| #68 |  The Pillars of the Earth
| 4.12 | 441 reads | |
| #69 |  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
| 4.2 | 1,169 reads | |
| #70 |  Outlander
| 3.89 | 455 reads | |
| #71 |  The Secret History
| 4.04 | 764 reads | |
| #72 |  The Virgin Suicides
| 3.78 | 237 reads | |
| #73 |  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
| 4.11 | 387 reads | |
| #74 |  The Golden Compass
| 4.03 | 1,218 reads | |
| #75 |  A Game of Thrones
| 4.38 | 2,185 reads | |
| #76 |  Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.82 | 288 reads | |
| #77 |  The Poisonwood Bible
| 4.04 | 242 reads | |
| #78 |  Girl with a Pearl Earring
| 3.77 | 135 reads | |
| #79 |  House of Leaves
| 4.11 | 366 reads | |
| #80 |  The Shadow of the Wind
| 4.11 | 477 reads | |
| #81 |  Coraline
| 4.08 | 774 reads | |
| #82 |  The Namesake
| 4.02 | 128 reads | |
| #83 |  Cloud Atlas
| 3.91 | 405 reads | |
| #84 |  Never Let Me Go
| 3.82 | 761 reads | |
| #85 |  The Road
| 4.05 | 1,027 reads | |
| #86 |  The Book Thief
| 4.34 | 1,107 reads | |
| #87 |  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
| 4.11 | 229 reads | |
| #88 |  Wolf Hall
| 3.92 | 185 reads | |
| #89 |  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| 4.16 | 38 reads | |
| #90 |  The Song of Achilles
| 4.26 | 1,355 reads | |
| #91 |  Gone Girl
| 3.94 | 1,127 reads | |
| #92 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.97 | 527 reads | |
| #93 |  Everything I Never Told You
| 3.92 | 338 reads | |
| #94 |  Between the World and Me
| 4.56 | 436 reads | |
| #95 |  When Breath Becomes Air
| 4.4 | 415 reads | |
| #96 |  The Hate U Give
| 4.51 | 480 reads | |
| #97 |  Educated: A Memoir
| 4.41 | 804 reads | |
| #98 |  Red, White & Royal Blue
| 4 | 739 reads | |
| #99 |  The Vanishing Half
| 4.14 | 396 reads | |
| #100 |  Malibu Rising
| 4.07 | 388 reads |