100 Years Of Popular Books

Updated 13 days 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 : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	3.88	143 reads
#2	The Prophet Kahlil Gibran	4.29	113 reads
#3	We Yevgeny Zamyatin Bela Shayevich (translator)	3.69	170 reads
#4	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.74	2,116 reads
#5	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	3.62	328 reads
#6	To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf	3.7	189 reads
#7	The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall	2.95	17 reads
#8	Passing Nella Larsen	3.85	86 reads
#9	As I Lay Dying William Faulkner	3.57	155 reads
#10	Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer Marion Rombauer Becker Ethan Becker John Becker Megan Scott	4.6	6 reads
#11	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.89	1,609 reads
#12	In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) Thomas J. Harper (Translator)	3.46	42 reads
#13	Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.04	697 reads
#14	Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers	4.25	30 reads
#15	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	4	38 reads
#16	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.97	239 reads
#17	Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.11	127 reads
#18	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.77	500 reads
#19	Native Son Richard Wright	4.07	64 reads
#20	The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges Erik Desmazieres Andrew Hurley (Translator)	4.13	25 reads
#21	The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	3.92	1,131 reads
#22	O Pequeno Príncipe Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.21	1,256 reads
#23	Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.23	107 reads
#24	The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams	3.82	95 reads
#25	The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers	3.45	16 reads
#26	No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre Stuart Gilbert (Translator) Lionel Abel (Translator)	3.94	66 reads
#27	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	3.62	62 reads
#28	1984 George Orwell	4.2	3,344 reads
#29	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	3.96	1,428 reads
#30	Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.99	937 reads
#31	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.77	152 reads
#32	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.93	2,032 reads
#33	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.38	2,072 reads
#34	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)	3.92	684 reads
#35	Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.37	145 reads
#36	Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Max Hayward (Translator) Manya Harari (Translator)	3.37	63 reads
#37	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	337 reads
#38	The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.75	479 reads
#39	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.15	2,193 reads
#40	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.99	612 reads
#41	Silent Spring Rachel Carson	3.84	49 reads
#42	The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.92	697 reads
#43	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.05	576 reads
#44	Dune Frank Herbert	4.28	2,382 reads
#45	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	4.22	62 reads
#46	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.1	635 reads
#47	Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion	4.1	62 reads
#48	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	4.15	197 reads
#49	The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.94	182 reads
#50	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson	4.03	24 reads
#51	Ways of Seeing John Berger	4.17	66 reads
#52	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21	602 reads
#53	Carrie Stephen King	3.73	617 reads
#54	'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.83	538 reads
#55	The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston	3	3 reads
#56	Song of Solomon Toni Morrison	4.32	87 reads
#57	The Westing Game Ellen Raskin	3.9	201 reads
#58	Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.31	367 reads
#59	The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	3.99	331 reads
#60	Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.07	119 reads
#61	The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.13	348 reads
#62	The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis	4.09	124 reads
#63	The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	3.74	154 reads
#64	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	1,429 reads
#65	Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	4.16	552 reads
#66	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.44	822 reads
#67	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	3.49	1,392 reads
#68	The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	4.11	419 reads
#69	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	4.2	1,110 reads
#70	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.89	432 reads
#71	The Secret History Donna Tartt	4.05	715 reads
#72	The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.75	224 reads
#73	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	4.1	367 reads
#74	The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.04	1,152 reads
#75	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.39	2,046 reads
#76	Guns, Germs and Steel Jared M. Diamond	3.83	272 reads
#77	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	4.03	224 reads
#78	Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	3.77	135 reads
#79	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.14	336 reads
#80	The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	4.1	450 reads
#81	Coraline Neil Gaiman	4.09	737 reads
#82	The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri	4.04	120 reads
#83	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.92	389 reads
#84	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	714 reads
#85	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.04	974 reads
#86	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.34	1,036 reads
#87	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows	4.13	215 reads
#88	Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	3.91	175 reads
#89	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot	4.16	38 reads
#90	The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	4.26	1,279 reads
#91	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.93	1,058 reads
#92	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.97	496 reads
#93	Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng	3.93	323 reads
#94	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.54	413 reads
#95	When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi	4.41	395 reads
#96	The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	4.51	464 reads
#97	Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	4.4	750 reads
#98	Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston	3.99	676 reads
#99	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	4.14	383 reads
#100	Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.08	381 reads