100 Years Of Popular Books

October 29, 2024
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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.

Position	Details	Readers Count
#1	Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	149 reads
#2	The Prophet Kahlil Gibran	127 reads
#3	We Yevgeny Zamyatin Bela Shayevich (translator)	180 reads
#4	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	2,274 reads
#5	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	344 reads
#6	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf	202 reads
#7	The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall	18 reads
#8	Passing Nella Larsen	90 reads
#9	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	165 reads
#10	Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer Marion Rombauer Becker Ethan Becker John Becker Megan Scott	6 reads
#11	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	1,758 reads
#12	In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) Thomas J. Harper (Translator)	43 reads
#13	Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	742 reads
#14	Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers	32 reads
#15	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	39 reads
#16	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	249 reads
#17	Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	138 reads
#18	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	529 reads
#19	Native Son Richard Wright	70 reads
#20	The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges Erik Desmazieres Andrew Hurley (Translator)	25 reads
#21	The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	1,203 reads
#22	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1,346 reads
#23	Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	110 reads
#24	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	109 reads
#25	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	16 reads
#26	No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre Stuart Gilbert (Translator) Lionel Abel (Translator)	67 reads
#27	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	67 reads
#28	1984 George Orwell	3,621 reads
#29	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	1,551 reads
#30	Foundation Isaac Asimov	1,025 reads
#31	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	168 reads
#32	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	2,204 reads
#33	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	2,235 reads
#34	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)	720 reads
#35	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	155 reads
#36	Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Max Hayward (Translator) Manya Harari (Translator)	63 reads
#37	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	356 reads
#38	The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	504 reads
#39	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	2,369 reads
#40	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	662 reads
#41	Silent Spring Rachel Carson	49 reads
#42	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	744 reads
#43	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	612 reads
#44	Dune Frank Herbert	2,575 reads
#45	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	62 reads
#46	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	681 reads
#47	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	62 reads
#48	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	207 reads
#49	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	193 reads
#50	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson	28 reads
#51	Ways of Seeing John Berger	68 reads
#52	The Princess Bride William Goldman	633 reads
#53	Carrie Stephen King	666 reads
#54	'Salem's Lot Stephen King	583 reads
#55	The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston	3 reads
#56	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	87 reads
#57	The Westing Game Ellen Raskin	216 reads
#58	Kindred Octavia E. Butler	389 reads
#59	The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	358 reads
#60	Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	123 reads
#61	The Color Purple Alice Walker	367 reads
#62	The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis	125 reads
#63	The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	163 reads
#64	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	1,587 reads
#65	Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	594 reads
#66	Watchmen Alan Moore	866 reads
#67	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	1,513 reads
#68	The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	441 reads
#69	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	1,187 reads
#70	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	468 reads
#71	The Secret History Donna Tartt	775 reads
#72	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	237 reads
#73	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	389 reads
#74	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	1,237 reads
#75	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	2,213 reads
#76	Guns, Germs and Steel Jared M. Diamond	295 reads
#77	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	242 reads
#78	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	135 reads
#79	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	366 reads
#80	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	485 reads
#81	Coraline Neil Gaiman	790 reads
#82	The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri	128 reads
#83	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	412 reads
#84	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	765 reads
#85	The Road Cormac McCarthy	1,055 reads
#86	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	1,115 reads
#87	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	240 reads
#88	Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	185 reads
#89	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot	38 reads
#90	The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	1,385 reads
#91	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	1,146 reads
#92	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	532 reads
#93	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	343 reads
#94	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	435 reads
#95	When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi	421 reads
#96	The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	496 reads
#97	Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	810 reads
#98	Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston	762 reads
#99	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	396 reads
#100	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	396 reads

Position	Details	Readers Count
#1	Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	149 reads
#2	The Prophet Kahlil Gibran	127 reads
#3	We Yevgeny Zamyatin Bela Shayevich (translator)	180 reads
#4	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	2,274 reads
#5	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	344 reads
#6	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf	202 reads
#7	The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall	18 reads
#8	Passing Nella Larsen	90 reads
#9	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	165 reads
#10	Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer Marion Rombauer Becker Ethan Becker John Becker Megan Scott	6 reads
#11	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	1,758 reads
#12	In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) Thomas J. Harper (Translator)	43 reads
#13	Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	742 reads
#14	Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers	32 reads
#15	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	39 reads
#16	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	249 reads
#17	Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	138 reads
#18	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	529 reads
#19	Native Son Richard Wright	70 reads
#20	The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges Erik Desmazieres Andrew Hurley (Translator)	25 reads
#21	The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	1,203 reads
#22	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1,346 reads
#23	Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	110 reads
#24	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	109 reads
#25	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	16 reads
#26	No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre Stuart Gilbert (Translator) Lionel Abel (Translator)	67 reads
#27	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	67 reads
#28	1984 George Orwell	3,621 reads
#29	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	1,551 reads
#30	Foundation Isaac Asimov	1,025 reads
#31	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	168 reads
#32	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	2,204 reads
#33	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	2,235 reads
#34	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)	720 reads
#35	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	155 reads
#36	Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Max Hayward (Translator) Manya Harari (Translator)	63 reads
#37	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	356 reads
#38	The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	504 reads
#39	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	2,369 reads
#40	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	662 reads
#41	Silent Spring Rachel Carson	49 reads
#42	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	744 reads
#43	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	612 reads
#44	Dune Frank Herbert	2,575 reads
#45	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	62 reads
#46	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	681 reads
#47	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	62 reads
#48	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	207 reads
#49	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	193 reads
#50	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson	28 reads
#51	Ways of Seeing John Berger	68 reads
#52	The Princess Bride William Goldman	633 reads
#53	Carrie Stephen King	666 reads
#54	'Salem's Lot Stephen King	583 reads
#55	The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston	3 reads
#56	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	87 reads
#57	The Westing Game Ellen Raskin	216 reads
#58	Kindred Octavia E. Butler	389 reads
#59	The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	358 reads
#60	Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	123 reads
#61	The Color Purple Alice Walker	367 reads
#62	The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis	125 reads
#63	The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	163 reads
#64	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	1,587 reads
#65	Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	594 reads
#66	Watchmen Alan Moore	866 reads
#67	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	1,513 reads
#68	The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	441 reads
#69	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	1,187 reads
#70	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	468 reads
#71	The Secret History Donna Tartt	775 reads
#72	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	237 reads
#73	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	389 reads
#74	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	1,237 reads
#75	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	2,213 reads
#76	Guns, Germs and Steel Jared M. Diamond	295 reads
#77	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	242 reads
#78	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	135 reads
#79	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	366 reads
#80	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	485 reads
#81	Coraline Neil Gaiman	790 reads
#82	The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri	128 reads
#83	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	412 reads
#84	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	765 reads
#85	The Road Cormac McCarthy	1,055 reads
#86	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	1,115 reads
#87	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	240 reads
#88	Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	185 reads
#89	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot	38 reads
#90	The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	1,385 reads
#91	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	1,146 reads
#92	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	532 reads
#93	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	343 reads
#94	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	435 reads
#95	When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi	421 reads
#96	The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	496 reads
#97	Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	810 reads
#98	Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston	762 reads
#99	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	396 reads
#100	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	396 reads

100 Years Of Popular Books

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