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.
 Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.88 | 157 reads |
 The Prophet
| 4.16 | 188 reads |
 We
| 3.71 | 189 reads |
 The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 | 2,389 reads |
 The Sun Also Rises
| 3.61 | 365 reads |
 To the Lighthouse
| 3.75 | 209 reads |
 The Well of Loneliness
| 2.95 | 18 reads |
 Passing
| 3.86 | 100 reads |
 As I Lay Dying
| 3.6 | 170 reads |
 Joy of Cooking
| 4.6 | 6 reads |
 Brave New World
| 3.89 | 1,836 reads |
 In Praise of Shadows
| 3.52 | 44 reads |
 Murder on the Orient Express
| 4.05 | 775 reads |
 Gaudy Night
| 4.23 | 32 reads |
 Absalom, Absalom!
| 4 | 41 reads |
 Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.94 | 270 reads |
 Rebecca
| 4.1 | 149 reads |
 The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.77 | 565 reads |
 Native Son
| 3.97 | 73 reads |
 The Library of Babel
| 4.13 | 25 reads |
 The Stranger
| 3.93 | 1,261 reads |
 The Little Prince
| 4.21 | 1,417 reads |
 Ficciones
| 4.21 | 122 reads |
 The Glass Menagerie
| 3.82 | 119 reads |
 The Member of the Wedding
| 3.57 | 20 reads |
 No Exit
| 3.94 | 67 reads |
 I Capture the Castle
| 3.63 | 67 reads |
 1984
| 4.21 | 3,824 reads |
 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
| 3.96 | 1,649 reads |
 Foundation
| 3.98 | 1,062 reads |
 Invisible Man
| 3.81 | 175 reads |
 Fahrenheit 451
| 3.91 | 2,324 reads |
 The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.38 | 2,350 reads |
 Lolita
| 3.9 | 755 reads |
 Giovanni's Room
| 4.36 | 168 reads |
 Doctor Zhivago
| 3.42 | 69 reads |
 Things Fall Apart
| 3.67 | 380 reads |
 The Haunting of Hill House
| 3.74 | 530 reads |
 To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.15 | 2,497 reads |
 Catch-22
| 3.99 | 686 reads |
 Silent Spring
| 3.84 | 52 reads |
 The Bell Jar
| 3.93 | 777 reads |
 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
| 4.06 | 648 reads |
 Dune
| 4.29 | 2,696 reads |
 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
| 4.22 | 62 reads |
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.1 | 715 reads |
 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| 4.09 | 66 reads |
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
| 4.11 | 237 reads |
 The Bluest Eye
| 3.96 | 212 reads |
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
| 4.07 | 28 reads |
 Ways of Seeing
| 4.13 | 72 reads |
 The Princess Bride
| 4.19 | 662 reads |
 Carrie
| 3.71 | 706 reads |
 'Salem's Lot
| 3.84 | 622 reads |
 The Woman Warrior
| 3 | 3 reads |
 Song of Solomon
| 4.2 | 102 reads |
 The Westing Game
| 3.86 | 231 reads |
 Kindred
| 4.33 | 403 reads |
 The Name of the Rose
| 3.99 | 372 reads |
 Midnight's Children
| 4.05 | 131 reads |
 The Color Purple
| 4.16 | 393 reads |
 The Queen's Gambit
| 4.09 | 130 reads |
 The House on Mango Street
| 3.68 | 183 reads |
 The Handmaid's Tale
| 4.09 | 1,660 reads |
 Howl's Moving Castle
| 4.17 | 639 reads |
 Watchmen
| 4.45 | 904 reads |
 The Alchemist
| 3.49 | 1,594 reads |
 The Pillars of the Earth
| 4.09 | 472 reads |
 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
| 4.2 | 1,240 reads |
 Outlander
| 3.9 | 495 reads |
 The Secret History
| 4.05 | 810 reads |
 The Virgin Suicides
| 3.77 | 256 reads |
 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
| 4.12 | 408 reads |
 The Golden Compass
| 4.04 | 1,304 reads |
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.37 | 2,294 reads |
 Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.83 | 315 reads |
 The Poisonwood Bible
| 4.06 | 258 reads |
 Girl with a Pearl Earring
| 3.81 | 145 reads |
 House of Leaves
| 4.12 | 383 reads |
 The Shadow of the Wind
| 4.12 | 510 reads |
 Coraline
| 4.08 | 815 reads |
 The Namesake
| 4.03 | 138 reads |
 Cloud Atlas
| 3.9 | 425 reads |
 Never Let Me Go
| 3.82 | 817 reads |
 The Road
| 4.04 | 1,107 reads |
 The Book Thief
| 4.32 | 1,172 reads |
 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
| 4.11 | 243 reads |
 Wolf Hall
| 3.91 | 197 reads |
 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| 4.16 | 38 reads |
 The Song of Achilles
| 4.26 | 1,466 reads |
 Gone Girl
| 3.94 | 1,200 reads |
 The Goldfinch
| 3.95 | 554 reads |
 Everything I Never Told You
| 3.92 | 363 reads |
 Between the World and Me
| 4.57 | 452 reads |
 When Breath Becomes Air
| 4.41 | 436 reads |
 The Hate U Give
| 4.52 | 527 reads |
 Educated: A Memoir
| 4.43 | 855 reads |
 Red, White & Royal Blue
| 4.01 | 806 reads |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.14 | 441 reads |
 Malibu Rising
| 4.06 | 414 reads |