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
| 151 reads |
| #2 |  The Prophet
| 132 reads |
| #3 |  We
| 180 reads |
| #4 |  The Great Gatsby
| 2,286 reads |
| #5 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 352 reads |
| #6 |  To the Lighthouse
| 205 reads |
| #7 |  The Well of Loneliness
| 18 reads |
| #8 |  Passing
| 90 reads |
| #9 |  As I Lay Dying
| 165 reads |
| #10 |  Joy of Cooking
| 6 reads |
| #11 |  Brave New World
| 1,767 reads |
| #12 |  In Praise of Shadows
| 44 reads |
| #13 |  Murder on the Orient Express
| 748 reads |
| #14 |  Gaudy Night
| 32 reads |
| #15 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 39 reads |
| #16 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 249 reads |
| #17 |  Rebecca
| 148 reads |
| #18 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 537 reads |
| #19 |  Native Son
| 70 reads |
| #20 |  The Library of Babel
| 25 reads |
| #21 |  The Stranger
| 1,218 reads |
| #22 |  The Little Prince
| 1,348 reads |
| #23 |  Ficciones
| 110 reads |
| #24 |  The Glass Menagerie
| 114 reads |
| #25 |  The Member of the Wedding
| 16 reads |
| #26 |  No Exit
| 67 reads |
| #27 |  I Capture the Castle
| 67 reads |
| #28 |  1984
| 3,643 reads |
| #29 |  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
| 1,569 reads |
| #30 |  Foundation
| 1,026 reads |
| #31 |  Invisible Man
| 169 reads |
| #32 |  Fahrenheit 451
| 2,218 reads |
| #33 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 2,247 reads |
| #34 |  Lolita
| 723 reads |
| #35 |  Giovanni's Room
| 159 reads |
| #36 |  Doctor Zhivago
| 66 reads |
| #37 |  Things Fall Apart
| 359 reads |
| #38 |  The Haunting of Hill House
| 510 reads |
| #39 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 2,380 reads |
| #40 |  Catch-22
| 664 reads |
| #41 |  Silent Spring
| 49 reads |
| #42 |  The Bell Jar
| 750 reads |
| #43 |  Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
| 617 reads |
| #44 |  Dune
| 2,588 reads |
| #45 |  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
| 62 reads |
| #46 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 688 reads |
| #47 |  Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| 66 reads |
| #48 |  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
| 218 reads |
| #49 |  The Bluest Eye
| 195 reads |
| #50 |  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
| 28 reads |
| #51 |  Ways of Seeing
| 68 reads |
| #52 |  The Princess Bride
| 640 reads |
| #53 |  Carrie
| 672 reads |
| #54 |  'Salem's Lot
| 595 reads |
| #55 |  The Woman Warrior
| 3 reads |
| #56 |  Song of Solomon
| 87 reads |
| #57 |  The Westing Game
| 218 reads |
| #58 |  Kindred
| 392 reads |
| #59 |  The Name of the Rose
| 358 reads |
| #60 |  Midnight's Children
| 123 reads |
| #61 |  The Color Purple
| 367 reads |
| #62 |  The Queen's Gambit
| 130 reads |
| #63 |  The House on Mango Street
| 163 reads |
| #64 |  The Handmaid's Tale
| 1,594 reads |
| #65 |  Howl's Moving Castle
| 598 reads |
| #66 |  Watchmen
| 869 reads |
| #67 |  The Alchemist
| 1,517 reads |
| #68 |  The Pillars of the Earth
| 455 reads |
| #69 |  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
| 1,193 reads |
| #70 |  Outlander
| 473 reads |
| #71 |  The Secret History
| 778 reads |
| #72 |  The Virgin Suicides
| 246 reads |
| #73 |  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
| 392 reads |
| #74 |  The Golden Compass
| 1,239 reads |
| #75 |  A Game of Thrones
| 2,222 reads |
| #76 |  Guns, Germs and Steel
| 295 reads |
| #77 |  The Poisonwood Bible
| 244 reads |
| #78 |  Girl with a Pearl Earring
| 135 reads |
| #79 |  House of Leaves
| 369 reads |
| #80 |  The Shadow of the Wind
| 488 reads |
| #81 |  Coraline
| 790 reads |
| #82 |  The Namesake
| 128 reads |
| #83 |  Cloud Atlas
| 413 reads |
| #84 |  Never Let Me Go
| 782 reads |
| #85 |  The Road
| 1,057 reads |
| #86 |  The Book Thief
| 1,125 reads |
| #87 |  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
| 243 reads |
| #88 |  Wolf Hall
| 187 reads |
| #89 |  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| 38 reads |
| #90 |  The Song of Achilles
| 1,393 reads |
| #91 |  Gone Girl
| 1,159 reads |
| #92 |  The Goldfinch
| 533 reads |
| #93 |  Everything I Never Told You
| 351 reads |
| #94 |  Between the World and Me
| 440 reads |
| #95 |  When Breath Becomes Air
| 422 reads |
| #96 |  The Hate U Give
| 501 reads |
| #97 |  Educated: A Memoir
| 812 reads |
| #98 |  Red, White & Royal Blue
| 776 reads |
| #99 |  The Vanishing Half
| 396 reads |
| #100 |  Malibu Rising
| 400 reads |