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 |
| #2 |  The Prophet
| 4.23 |
| #3 |  We
| 3.72 |
| #4 |  The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 |
| #5 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 3.61 |
| #6 |  To the Lighthouse
| 3.72 |
| #7 |  The Well of Loneliness
| 2.95 |
| #8 |  Passing
| 3.85 |
| #9 |  As I Lay Dying
| 3.61 |
| #10 |  Joy of Cooking
| 4.6 |
| #11 |  Brave New World
| 3.89 |
| #12 |  In Praise of Shadows
| 3.52 |
| #13 |  Murder on the Orient Express
| 4.05 |
| #14 |  Gaudy Night
| 4.23 |
| #15 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 3.96 |
| #16 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.97 |
| #17 |  Rebecca
| 4.11 |
| #18 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.79 |
| #19 |  Native Son
| 4.07 |
| #20 |  The Library of Babel
| 4.13 |
| #21 |  The Stranger
| 3.93 |
| #22 |  The Little Prince
| 4.2 |
| #23 |  Ficciones
| 4.22 |
| #24 |  The Glass Menagerie
| 3.83 |
| #25 |  The Member of the Wedding
| 3.45 |
| #26 |  No Exit
| 3.94 |
| #27 |  I Capture the Castle
| 3.63 |
| #28 |  1984
| 4.2 |
| #29 |  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
| 3.96 |
| #30 |  Foundation
| 3.99 |
| #31 |  Invisible Man
| 3.79 |
| #32 |  Fahrenheit 451
| 3.92 |
| #33 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.39 |
| #34 |  Lolita
| 3.9 |
| #35 |  Giovanni's Room
| 4.35 |
| #36 |  Doctor Zhivago
| 3.42 |
| #37 |  Things Fall Apart
| 3.66 |
| #38 |  The Haunting of Hill House
| 3.75 |
| #39 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.15 |
| #40 |  Catch-22
| 4 |
| #41 |  Silent Spring
| 3.84 |
| #42 |  The Bell Jar
| 3.93 |
| #43 |  Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
| 4.06 |
| #44 |  Dune
| 4.28 |
| #45 |  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
| 4.22 |
| #46 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.08 |
| #47 |  Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| 4.09 |
| #48 |  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
| 4.11 |
| #49 |  The Bluest Eye
| 3.93 |
| #50 |  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
| 4.07 |
| #51 |  Ways of Seeing
| 4.18 |
| #52 |  The Princess Bride
| 4.2 |
| #53 |  Carrie
| 3.72 |
| #54 |  'Salem's Lot
| 3.84 |
| #55 |  The Woman Warrior
| 3 |
| #56 |  Song of Solomon
| 4.32 |
| #57 |  The Westing Game
| 3.88 |
| #58 |  Kindred
| 4.32 |
| #59 |  The Name of the Rose
| 3.99 |
| #60 |  Midnight's Children
| 4.09 |
| #61 |  The Color Purple
| 4.13 |
| #62 |  The Queen's Gambit
| 4.09 |
| #63 |  The House on Mango Street
| 3.72 |
| #64 |  The Handmaid's Tale
| 4.08 |
| #65 |  Howl's Moving Castle
| 4.16 |
| #66 |  Watchmen
| 4.45 |
| #67 |  The Alchemist
| 3.49 |
| #68 |  The Pillars of the Earth
| 4.1 |
| #69 |  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
| 4.2 |
| #70 |  Outlander
| 3.89 |
| #71 |  The Secret History
| 4.04 |
| #72 |  The Virgin Suicides
| 3.78 |
| #73 |  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
| 4.1 |
| #74 |  The Golden Compass
| 4.03 |
| #75 |  A Game of Thrones
| 4.38 |
| #76 |  Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.82 |
| #77 |  The Poisonwood Bible
| 4.04 |
| #78 |  Girl with a Pearl Earring
| 3.77 |
| #79 |  House of Leaves
| 4.11 |
| #80 |  The Shadow of the Wind
| 4.12 |
| #81 |  Coraline
| 4.08 |
| #82 |  The Namesake
| 4.02 |
| #83 |  Cloud Atlas
| 3.9 |
| #84 |  Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 |
| #85 |  The Road
| 4.05 |
| #86 |  The Book Thief
| 4.32 |
| #87 |  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
| 4.11 |
| #88 |  Wolf Hall
| 3.92 |
| #89 |  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| 4.16 |
| #90 |  The Song of Achilles
| 4.26 |
| #91 |  Gone Girl
| 3.94 |
| #92 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.96 |
| #93 |  Everything I Never Told You
| 3.91 |
| #94 |  Between the World and Me
| 4.56 |
| #95 |  When Breath Becomes Air
| 4.41 |
| #96 |  The Hate U Give
| 4.52 |
| #97 |  Educated: A Memoir
| 4.41 |
| #98 |  Red, White & Royal Blue
| 4 |
| #99 |  The Vanishing Half
| 4.14 |
| #100 |  Malibu Rising
| 4.07 |