100 Years Of Popular Books

Updated 6 months ago
100 Books
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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	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Ulysses James Joyce	3.8	213 reads
#2	The Prophet Kahlil Gibran	4.14	240 reads
#3	We Yevgeny Zamyatin Bela Shayevich (translator)	3.66	233 reads
#4	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.72	3,242 reads
#5	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	3.63	497 reads
#6	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf	3.75	268 reads
#7	The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall	3.11	23 reads
#8	Passing Nella Larsen	3.92	120 reads
#9	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	3.59	224 reads
#10	Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer Marion Rombauer Becker Ethan Becker John Becker Megan Scott	4.33	11 reads
#11	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,370 reads
#12	In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) Thomas J. Harper (Translator)	3.54	58 reads
#13	Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.06	1,038 reads
#14	Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers	4.09	46 reads
#15	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	4	59 reads
#16	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.91	341 reads
#17	Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.13	577 reads
#18	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.81	761 reads
#19	Native Son Richard Wright	4.03	102 reads
#20	The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges Erik Desmazieres Andrew Hurley (Translator)	4.19	44 reads
#21	The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	3.94	1,626 reads
#22	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.23	1,935 reads
#23	Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.22	156 reads
#24	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	3.76	154 reads
#25	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	3.61	25 reads
#26	No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre Stuart Gilbert (Translator) Lionel Abel (Translator)	3.93	84 reads
#27	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	3.79	91 reads
#28	1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,010 reads
#29	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	3.96	2,109 reads
#30	Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.98	1,410 reads
#31	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.81	238 reads
#32	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.9	3,023 reads
#33	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.38	3,100 reads
#34	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov	3.88	982 reads
#35	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.38	215 reads
#36	Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Max Hayward (Translator) Manya Harari (Translator)	3.45	88 reads
#37	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.63	482 reads
#38	The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.73	680 reads
#39	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,205 reads
#40	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	4	880 reads
#41	Silent Spring Rachel Carson	3.81	74 reads
#42	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.95	991 reads
#43	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.05	825 reads
#44	Dune Frank Herbert	4.3	3,549 reads
#45	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	4.22	82 reads
#46	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez	4.08	973 reads
#47	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	4.1	94 reads
#48	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	4.15	306 reads
#49	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.96	274 reads
#50	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson	3.89	42 reads
#51	Ways of Seeing John Berger	4.1	97 reads
#52	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.18	869 reads
#53	Carrie Stephen King	3.75	935 reads
#54	'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.87	814 reads
#55	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston	3.29	41 reads
#56	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.17	135 reads
#57	The Westing Game Ellen Raskin	3.92	301 reads
#58	Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	527 reads
#59	The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	4	466 reads
#60	Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.01	172 reads
#61	The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	509 reads
#62	The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis	4.07	184 reads
#63	The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	3.65	233 reads
#64	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.08	2,143 reads
#65	Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	4.17	808 reads
#66	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.43	1,170 reads
#67	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	3.5	2,022 reads
#68	The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	4.08	587 reads
#69	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	4.18	1,573 reads
#70	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.9	619 reads
#71	The Secret History Donna Tartt	4.06	1,045 reads
#72	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.78	349 reads
#73	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator)	4.04	566 reads
#74	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.03	1,707 reads
#75	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.37	3,002 reads
#76	Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond	3.88	419 reads
#77	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	4.1	338 reads
#78	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	3.81	186 reads
#79	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.1	504 reads
#80	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	4.14	706 reads
#81	Coraline Neil Gaiman	4.08	1,020 reads
#82	The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri	4.03	167 reads
#83	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.93	536 reads
#84	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.83	1,051 reads
#85	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,438 reads
#86	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.32	1,495 reads
#87	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	4.07	358 reads
#88	Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	3.95	257 reads
#89	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot	4.13	47 reads
#90	The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	4.26	1,845 reads
#91	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.95	1,517 reads
#92	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.95	682 reads
#93	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	3.88	472 reads
#94	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	557 reads
#95	When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi	4.37	541 reads
#96	The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	4.5	653 reads
#97	Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	4.43	1,080 reads
#98	Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston	4.05	1,023 reads
#99	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	4.11	534 reads
#100	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4	540 reads