Goodreads Best Books of the Decade: 1900-2010's 

Source: Goodreads  

2010
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1 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 4.28 avg rating — 2,311,917 ratings
2 | Divergent (Divergent, #1) | Veronica Roth | 4.25 avg rating — 2,093,879 ratings
3 | Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | 4.03 avg rating — 1,811,586 ratings
4 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 4.02 avg rating — 1,531,608 ratings
5 | The Martian | Andy Weir | 4.39 avg rating — 482,314 ratings
6 | Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) | Cassandra Clare | 4.33 avg rating — 488,134 ratings
7 | Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) | Marissa Meyer | 4.15 avg rating — 412,260 ratings
8 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 4.31 avg rating — 368,645 ratings
9 | Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) | Jojo Moyes | 4.28 avg rating — 669,032 ratings
10 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 4.31 avg rating — 475,196 ratings
11 | Insurgent (Divergent, #2) | Veronica Roth | 4.08 avg rating — 915,583 ratings
12 | The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1) | Rick Riordan | 4.35 avg rating — 472,077 ratings
13 | The Selection (The Selection, #1) | Kiera Cass | 4.16 avg rating — 486,006 ratings
14 | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | 4.03 avg rating — 445,165 ratings
15 | A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) | George R.R. Martin | 4.30 avg rating — 403,272 ratings
16 | Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2) | Cassandra Clare | 4.47 avg rating — 302,652 ratings
17 | Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) | Sarah J. Maas | 4.24 avg rating — 286,663 ratings
18 | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | 4.12 avg rating — 529,140 ratings
19 | Room | Emma Donoghue | 4.02 avg rating — 525,272 ratings
20 | Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) | Cassandra Clare | 4.59 avg rating — 233,809 ratings
21 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) | Ransom Riggs | 3.88 avg rating — 606,016 ratings
22 | 23337 | Stephen King | 4.29 avg rating — 285,243 ratings
23 | The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) | Patrick Rothfuss | 4.57 avg rating — 261,151 ratings
24 | City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4) | Cassandra Clare | 4.16 avg rating — 354,998 ratings
25 | City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) | Cassandra Clare | 4.30 avg rating — 311,950 ratings
26 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | 3.88 avg rating — 1,040,340 ratings
27 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 3.87 avg rating — 431,546 ratings
28 | Legend (Legend, #1) | Marie Lu | 4.19 avg rating — 300,384 ratings
29 | The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2) | Rick Riordan | 4.44 avg rating — 302,499 ratings
30 | Allegiant (Divergent, #3) | Veronica Roth | 3.64 avg rating — 636,608 ratings
31 | Wonder | R.J. Palacio | 4.42 avg rating — 335,703 ratings
32 | Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | 4.41 avg rating — 487,238 ratings
33 | The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3) | Rick Riordan | 4.48 avg rating — 258,897 ratings
34 | Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell | 4.13 avg rating — 333,514 ratings
35 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | 3.99 avg rating — 310,531 ratings
36 | Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) | Tahereh Mafi | 4.02 avg rating — 188,022 ratings
37 | The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4) | Rick Riordan | 4.54 avg rating — 162,694 ratings
38 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 4.03 avg rating — 372,709 ratings
39 | Delirium (Delirium, #1) | Lauren Oliver | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 338,211 ratings
40 | Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) | Laini Taylor | 4.05 avg rating — 213,434 ratings
41 | City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6) | Cassandra Clare | 4.48 avg rating — 188,179 ratings
42 | Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) | Marissa Meyer | 4.47 avg rating — 157,627 ratings
43 | Matched (Matched, #1) | Ally Condie | 3.69 avg rating — 508,180 ratings
44 | And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini | 4.03 avg rating — 216,202 ratings
45 | Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) | Victoria Aveyard | 4.09 avg rating — 236,436 ratings
46 | Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) | Marissa Meyer | 4.30 avg rating — 195,611 ratings
47 | The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) | Brandon Sanderson | 4.63 avg rating — 149,445 ratings
48 | Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1) | Stephanie Perkins | 4.09 avg rating — 266,757 ratings
49 | The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5) | Rick Riordan | 4.41 avg rating — 114,842 ratings
50 | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 3.88 avg rating — 130,028 ratings
51 | Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6) | Richelle Mead | 4.44 avg rating — 206,836 ratings
52 | The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) | Graeme Simsion | 4.01 avg rating — 281,597 ratings
53 | Bossypants | Tina Fey | 3.94 avg rating — 568,052 ratings
54 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | 4.53 avg rating — 276,581 ratings
55 | A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) | Sarah J. Maas | 4.30 avg rating — 145,689 ratings
56 | A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) | Sarah J. Maas | 4.74 avg rating — 89,938 ratings
57 | Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) | Ken Follett | 4.25 avg rating — 180,738 ratings
58 | Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5) | Richelle Mead | 4.37 avg rating — 230,003 ratings
59 | The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 259,913 ratings
60 | Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver | 3.92 avg rating — 209,856 ratings
61 | Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) | Sarah J. Maas | 4.50 avg rating — 161,545 ratings
62 | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | 3.74 avg rating — 152,053 ratings
63 | The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1) | Michelle Hodkin | 4.10 avg rating — 123,265 ratings
64 | The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, #1) | Rick Riordan | 4.06 avg rating — 234,732 ratings
65 | The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) | Robert Galbraith | 3.83 avg rating — 315,988 ratings
66 | A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1) | Deborah Harkness | 3.98 avg rating — 239,405 ratings
67 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | 4.03 avg rating — 207,254 ratings
68 | The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) | Rick Yancey | 4.12 avg rating — 263,124 ratings
69 | Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | 4.35 avg rating — 92,086 ratings
70 | Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4) | Dan Brown | 3.79 avg rating — 324,236 ratings
71 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Maria Semple | 3.91 avg rating — 248,843 ratings
72 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | 3.64 avg rating — 135,145 ratings
73 | Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2) | Becca Fitzpatrick | 4.08 avg rating — 227,197 ratings
74 | Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) | Brandon Sanderson | 4.76 avg rating — 96,941 ratings
75 | The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles, #2) | Rick Riordan | 4.20 avg rating — 117,756 ratings
76 | The Casual Vacancy | J.K. Rowling | 3.27 avg rating — 244,748 ratings
77 | Before I Go to Sleep | S.J. Watson | 3.87 avg rating — 200,227 ratings
78 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 3.70 avg rating — 107,225 ratings
79 | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | 4.34 avg rating — 102,813 ratings
80 | Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1) | Richelle Mead | 4.22 avg rating — 141,815 ratings
81 | Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) | Hilary Mantel | 4.26 avg rating — 49,437 ratings
82 | The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1) | Julie Kagawa | 3.92 avg rating — 156,896 ratings
83 | Silence (Hush, Hush, #3) | Becca Fitzpatrick | 4.18 avg rating — 185,678 ratings
84 | Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) | Lauren Oliver | 4.07 avg rating — 186,420 ratings
85 | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 4.01 avg rating — 171,346 ratings
86 | The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) | Maggie Stiefvater | 4.05 avg rating — 142,402 ratings
87 | Go the Fuck to Sleep | Adam Mansbach | 4.25 avg rating — 72,364 ratings
88 | Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1) | Beth Revis | 3.78 avg rating — 97,780 ratings
89 | The Passage (The Passage, #1) | Justin Cronin | 4.04 avg rating — 139,275 ratings
89 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 3.72 avg rating — 126,733 ratings
91 | The Art of Fielding | Chad Harbach | 3.99 avg rating — 86,208 ratings
92 | State of Wonder | Ann Patchett | 3.85 avg rating — 129,544 ratings
93 | Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2) | Ken Follett | 4.28 avg rating — 82,601 ratings
94 | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Erik Larson | 3.80 avg rating — 117,688 ratings
95 | Torment (Fallen, #2) | Lauren Kate | 3.89 avg rating — 175,389 ratings
96 | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand | Helen Simonson | 3.87 avg rating — 104,118 ratings
97 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | 4.02 avg rating — 40,628 ratings
98 | Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3) | Sarah J. Maas | 4.55 avg rating — 122,558 ratings
99 | Unearthly (Unearthly, #1) | Cynthia Hand | 4.07 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
100 | Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1) | Rachel Hawkins | 3.97 avg rating — 111,546 ratings

2000
1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) | J.K. Rowling | 4.61 avg rating — 1,760,197 ratings
2 | The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) | Suzanne Collins | 4.35 avg rating — 4,700,100 ratings
3 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) | J.K. Rowling | 4.53 avg rating — 1,703,431 ratings
4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) | J.K. Rowling | 4.52 avg rating — 1,775,941 ratings
5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) | J.K. Rowling | 4.46 avg rating — 1,767,108 ratings
6 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 3.94 avg rating — 1,264,280 ratings
7 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 4.36 avg rating — 1,205,038 ratings
8 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 4.25 avg rating — 1,794,915 ratings
9 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 4.45 avg rating — 1,521,497 ratings
10 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 4.33 avg rating — 825,635 ratings
11 | Twilight (Twilight, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.57 avg rating — 3,756,083 ratings
12 | Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | Suzanne Collins | 4.30 avg rating — 1,931,003 ratings
13 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | 4.06 avg rating — 1,070,867 ratings
14 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson | 4.10 avg rating — 1,834,439 ratings
15 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 3.88 avg rating — 1,053,540 ratings
16 | The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) | Dan Brown | 3.78 avg rating — 1,512,129 ratings
17 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 3.77 avg rating — 1,605,006 ratings
18 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 3.95 avg rating — 537,613 ratings
19 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 3.85 avg rating — 886,042 ratings
20 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | 4.01 avg rating — 907,514 ratings
21 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 3.97 avg rating — 493,763 ratings
22 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | 4.05 avg rating — 858,609 ratings
23 | Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter, #1-7) | J.K. Rowling | 4.74 avg rating — 196,024 ratings
24 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | 4.23 avg rating — 612,047 ratings
25 | Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.70 avg rating — 1,087,376 ratings
26 | The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) | Rick Riordan | 4.22 avg rating — 1,328,903 ratings
27 | Eclipse (Twilight, #3) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.70 avg rating — 1,148,357 ratings
28 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 3.87 avg rating — 355,539 ratings
29 | The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 4.24 avg rating — 302,846 ratings
30 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | 3.85 avg rating — 1,979,340 ratings
31 | New Moon (Twilight, #2) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.52 avg rating — 1,169,424 ratings
32 | American Gods (American Gods, #1) | Neil Gaiman | 4.11 avg rating — 459,088 ratings
33 | The Host (The Host, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.84 avg rating — 760,934 ratings
34 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 3.97 avg rating — 307,094 ratings
35 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | 3.90 avg rating — 464,698 ratings
36 | City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) | Cassandra Clare | 4.12 avg rating — 1,181,093 ratings
37 | The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) | Stieg Larsson | 4.22 avg rating — 619,747 ratings
38 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | 4.10 avg rating — 783,627 ratings
39 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer | 4.11 avg rating — 408,534 ratings
40 | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 3.50 avg rating — 1,165,261 ratings
41 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 3.80 avg rating — 307,990 ratings
42 | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | 3.95 avg rating — 221,250 ratings
43 | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 3.92 avg rating — 193,168 ratings
44 | The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) | Patrick Rothfuss | 4.55 avg rating — 409,731 ratings
45 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson | 3.98 avg rating — 334,071 ratings
46 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 4.17 avg rating — 151,374 ratings
47 | The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) | Philippa Gregory | 4.04 avg rating — 389,591 ratings
48 | Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | 3.96 avg rating — 498,684 ratings
49 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | 4.05 avg rating — 280,921 ratings
50 | Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) | Christopher Paolini | 3.85 avg rating — 1,077,005 ratings
51 | The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 3.76 avg rating — 201,593 ratings
52 | A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) | George R.R. Martin | 4.54 avg rating — 504,596 ratings
53 | Uglies (Uglies, #1) | Scott Westerfeld | 3.86 avg rating — 447,655 ratings
54 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) | Stieg Larsson | 4.20 avg rating — 508,349 ratings
55 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 4.01 avg rating — 165,420 ratings
56 | Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) | Richelle Mead | 4.14 avg rating — 434,326 ratings
57 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 3.80 avg rating — 146,522 ratings
58 | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 4.02 avg rating — 324,914 ratings
59 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) | Steven D. Levitt | 3.93 avg rating — 534,898 ratings
60 | Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 3.90 avg rating — 140,303 ratings
61 | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson | 3.64 avg rating — 280,743 ratings
62 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | 4.11 avg rating — 307,811 ratings
63 | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult | 4.09 avg rating — 242,049 ratings
64 | The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | 4.25 avg rating — 238,222 ratings
65 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 4.13 avg rating — 181,228 ratings
66 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards | 3.64 avg rating — 504,115 ratings
67 | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 3.96 avg rating — 186,948 ratings
68 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | 3.88 avg rating — 172,363 ratings
69 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) | Marjane Satrapi | 4.22 avg rating — 114,264 ratings
70 | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | 4.19 avg rating — 339,649 ratings
71 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 3.77 avg rating — 126,478 ratings
72 | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 3.99 avg rating — 158,200 ratings
73 | Running with Scissors | Augusten Burroughs | 3.69 avg rating — 298,951 ratings
74 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 4.12 avg rating — 105,320 ratings
75 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | 3.67 avg rating — 146,368 ratings
76 | World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth, #2) | Ken Follett | 4.22 avg rating — 138,995 ratings
77 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) | Philip Pullman | 4.06 avg rating — 209,259 ratings
78 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 3.94 avg rating — 107,078 ratings
79 | The Shack | Wm. Paul Young | 3.72 avg rating — 406,521 ratings
80 | The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | 3.91 avg rating — 100,324 ratings
81 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 4.17 avg rating — 144,510 ratings
82 | The Pact | Jodi Picoult | 3.99 avg rating — 229,571 ratings
83 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | 4.19 avg rating — 112,402 ratings
84 | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | 4.28 avg rating — 268,587 ratings
85 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 4.26 avg rating — 104,969 ratings
86 | Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | 4.13 avg rating — 337,787 ratings
87 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 3.90 avg rating — 90,569 ratings
88 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 4.14 avg rating — 84,247 ratings
89 | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | 3.60 avg rating — 77,820 ratings
90 | A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) | Libba Bray | 3.78 avg rating — 177,539 ratings
91 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 3.74 avg rating — 85,834 ratings
92 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | 3.88 avg rating — 340,018 ratings
93 | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal | Eric Schlosser | 3.73 avg rating — 180,088 ratings
94 | Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) | Neil Gaiman | 3.99 avg rating — 144,443 ratings
95 | John Adams | David McCullough | 4.06 avg rating — 205,707 ratings
96 | Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 104,623 ratings
97 | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | 3.88 avg rating — 94,846 ratings
98 | What Is the What | Dave Eggers | 4.15 avg rating — 62,989 ratings
99 | Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | 3.97 avg rating — 59,646 ratings
100 | The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | 3.68 avg rating — 110,732 ratings

1990
1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | 4.43 avg rating — 4,487,117 ratings
2 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) | J.K. Rowling | 4.52 avg rating — 1,870,819 ratings
3 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) | J.K. Rowling | 4.36 avg rating — 1,808,401 ratings
4 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) | George R.R. Martin | 4.44 avg rating — 1,360,674 ratings
5 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 4.07 avg rating — 1,371,914 ratings
6 | The Giver (The Giver, #1) | Lois Lowry | 4.12 avg rating — 1,316,732 ratings
7 | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) | Philip Pullman | 3.93 avg rating — 954,191 ratings
8 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 4.02 avg rating — 548,368 ratings
9 | The Perks of Being A Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | 4.21 avg rating — 912,189 ratings
10 | Holes (Holes, #1) | Louis Sachar | 3.93 avg rating — 731,534 ratings
11 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 3.84 avg rating — 470,658 ratings
12 | Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) | Helen Fielding | 3.74 avg rating — 727,413 ratings
13 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | 4.20 avg rating — 373,311 ratings
14 | Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) | Frank McCourt | 4.07 avg rating — 401,648 ratings
15 | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | 3.83 avg rating — 168,343 ratings
16 | Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) | Michael Crichton | 3.95 avg rating — 627,833 ratings
17 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Terry Pratchett | 4.25 avg rating — 308,464 ratings
18 | A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) | George R.R. Martin | 4.40 avg rating — 579,698 ratings
19 | The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) | Lemony Snicket | 3.88 avg rating — 279,695 ratings
20 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) | Gregory Maguire | 3.52 avg rating — 520,264 ratings
21 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | 3.99 avg rating — 357,096 ratings
22 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | 4.17 avg rating — 282,317 ratings
23 | The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) | Philip Pullman | 4.10 avg rating — 260,525 ratings
24 | Outlander (Outlander #1) | Diana Gabaldon | 4.20 avg rating — 540,841 ratings
25 | The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | 4.12 avg rating — 167,783 ratings
26 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story | John Berendt | 3.90 avg rating — 168,857 ratings
27 | Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | 3.79 avg rating — 130,140 ratings
28 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 3.91 avg rating — 173,297 ratings
29 | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | 3.96 avg rating — 335,956 ratings
30 | The Green Mile | Stephen King | 4.41 avg rating — 182,856 ratings
31 | Blindness | José Saramago | 4.07 avg rating — 125,688 ratings
32 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 4.32 avg rating — 53,546 ratings
33 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 4.07 avg rating — 176,151 ratings
34 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | 3.94 avg rating — 630,420 ratings
35 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 4.17 avg rating — 151,565 ratings
36 | White Oleander | Janet Fitch | 3.93 avg rating — 245,154 ratings
37 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | 3.87 avg rating — 137,135 ratings
38 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | 4.15 avg rating — 439,437 ratings
38 | The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) | Nicholas Sparks | 4.06 avg rating — 1,049,484 ratings
40 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 3.94 avg rating — 147,283 ratings
41 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | 4.05 avg rating — 553,695 ratings
42 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | 3.99 avg rating — 177,352 ratings
43 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 3.88 avg rating — 89,523 ratings
44 | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | 3.73 avg rating — 137,450 ratings
45 | The Firm | John Grisham | 3.98 avg rating — 473,253 ratings
46 | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | 3.83 avg rating — 185,023 ratings
47 | Stardust | Neil Gaiman | 4.07 avg rating — 261,864 ratings
48 | Oh, The Places You'll Go! | Dr. Seuss | 4.34 avg rating — 249,762 ratings
49 | She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb | 3.84 avg rating — 260,890 ratings
50 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1) | Alexander McCall Smith | 3.75 avg rating — 182,269 ratings
51 | Possession | A.S. Byatt | 3.88 avg rating — 58,116 ratings
52 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 4.34 avg rating — 101,315 ratings
53 | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail | Bill Bryson | 4.05 avg rating — 251,026 ratings
54 | The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes | Neil Gaiman | 4.32 avg rating — 126,813 ratings
55 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Jon Krakauer | 4.10 avg rating — 293,611 ratings
56 | All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) | Cormac McCarthy | 3.96 avg rating — 69,247 ratings
57 | I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb | 4.16 avg rating — 250,402 ratings
58 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 3.91 avg rating — 102,554 ratings
59 | The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | 3.82 avg rating — 104,560 ratings
60 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 4.07 avg rating — 176,151 ratings
61 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 4.12 avg rating — 119,370 ratings
62 | Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood | 3.97 avg rating — 57,008 ratings
63 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Høeg | 3.72 avg rating — 30,290 ratings
64 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 4.07 avg rating — 106,210 ratings
65 | Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | 3.94 avg rating — 63,923 ratings
66 | Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) | Garth Nix | 4.17 avg rating — 142,074 ratings
67 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 3.81 avg rating — 169,102 ratings
68 | A Walk to Remember | Nicholas Sparks | 4.15 avg rating — 553,070 ratings
69 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 3.79 avg rating — 47,993 ratings
70 | Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 3.83 avg rating — 59,030 ratings
71 | The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1) | Robert Jordan | 4.17 avg rating — 257,707 ratings
72 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 4.02 avg rating — 179,370 ratings
73 | American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1) | Philip Roth | 3.91 avg rating — 41,882 ratings
74 | The Kitchen God's Wife | Amy Tan | 3.98 avg rating — 60,496 ratings
75 | Naked | David Sedaris | 4.08 avg rating — 200,136 ratings
76 | About a Boy | Nick Hornby | 3.79 avg rating — 110,105 ratings
77 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang | 4.22 avg rating — 64,110 ratings
78 | Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) | Joanne Harris | 3.94 avg rating — 90,033 ratings
79 | Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 205,926 ratings
80 | The Pelican Brief | John Grisham | 3.94 avg rating — 285,591 ratings
81 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) | Philip Pullman | 4.06 avg rating — 209,259 ratings
82 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | 4.25 avg rating — 78,179 ratings
83 | L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3) | James Ellroy | 4.20 avg rating — 22,501 ratings
84 | Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx | 3.92 avg rating — 20,768 ratings
85 | Insomnia | Stephen King | 3.79 avg rating — 105,075 ratings
85 | Notes from a Small Island | Bill Bryson | 3.91 avg rating — 68,790 ratings
87 | A Widow for One Year | John Irving | 3.74 avg rating — 48,646 ratings
88 | Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection | Bill Watterson | 4.71 avg rating — 15,292 ratings
89 | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | 3.81 avg rating — 68,729 ratings
90 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | 3.82 avg rating — 152,852 ratings
91 | The Tortilla Curtain | T.C. Boyle | 3.64 avg rating — 21,791 ratings
92 | We Were the Mulvaneys | Joyce Carol Oates | 3.69 avg rating — 78,574 ratings
93 | Veronika Decides to Die | Paulo Coelho | 3.69 avg rating — 126,398 ratings
94 | Regeneration (Regeneration, #1) | Pat Barker | 4.03 avg rating — 19,179 ratings
95 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2) | Helen Fielding | 3.52 avg rating — 77,810 ratings
96 | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) | Art Spiegelman | 4.41 avg rating — 86,247 ratings
97 | Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) | Juliet Marillier | 4.28 avg rating — 41,434 ratings
98 | The Beach | Alex Garland | 3.91 avg rating — 55,465 ratings
99 | Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | 3.91 avg rating — 24,613 ratings
100 | The Client | John Grisham | 3.96 avg rating — 314,447 ratings

1980
1 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 4.03 avg rating — 548,425 ratings
2 | Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | 4.29 avg rating — 835,985 ratings
3 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 4.16 avg rating — 390,230 ratings
4 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | 4.28 avg rating — 451,058 ratings
5 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | 4.34 avg rating — 391,790 ratings
6 | Beloved (The Trilogy, #1) | Toni Morrison | 3.76 avg rating — 235,251 ratings
7 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 3.89 avg rating — 513,974 ratings
8 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 4.11 avg rating — 213,560 ratings
9 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 4.10 avg rating — 116,071 ratings
10 | It | Stephen King | 4.16 avg rating — 442,394 ratings
11 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 4.08 avg rating — 235,217 ratings
12 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 3.89 avg rating — 313,298 ratings
13 | The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) | Ken Follett | 4.29 avg rating — 475,197 ratings
14 | The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 4.12 avg rating — 158,580 ratings
15 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 4.22 avg rating — 239,557 ratings
16 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | 4.25 avg rating — 206,340 ratings
17 | The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) | Jean M. Auel | 4.01 avg rating — 183,215 ratings
18 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) | Douglas Adams | 4.22 avg rating — 163,351 ratings
19 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 3.81 avg rating — 1,307,610 ratings
20 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 4.47 avg rating — 112,147 ratings
21 | Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1) | Gary Paulsen | 3.67 avg rating — 222,442 ratings
22 | The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) | Thomas Harris | 4.13 avg rating — 354,607 ratings
23 | Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) | Art Spiegelman | 4.35 avg rating — 181,872 ratings
24 | Misery | Stephen King | 4.10 avg rating — 334,522 ratings
25 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | 4.10 avg rating — 329,910 ratings
26 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind | 3.99 avg rating — 209,240 ratings
27 | The Witches | Roald Dahl | 4.16 avg rating — 223,402 ratings
28 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 3.89 avg rating — 178,702 ratings
29 | A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | 4.34 avg rating — 292,749 ratings
30 | The Cider House Rules | John Irving | 4.10 avg rating — 130,042 ratings
31 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 3.99 avg rating — 80,102 ratings
32 | The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2) | Anne Rice | 4.05 avg rating — 146,983 ratings
33 | A Time to Kill | John Grisham | 4.02 avg rating — 591,236 ratings
34 | Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West | Cormac McCarthy | 4.19 avg rating — 75,486 ratings
35 | Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3) | Douglas Adams | 4.18 avg rating — 137,647 ratings
36 | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | 4.25 avg rating — 215,444 ratings
37 | Different Seasons | Stephen King | 4.33 avg rating — 132,485 ratings
38 | The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury | Bill Watterson | 4.65 avg rating — 92,232 ratings
39 | Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1) | Diana Wynne Jones | 4.30 avg rating — 134,278 ratings
40 | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 4.19 avg rating — 134,586 ratings
41 | The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | 4.51 avg rating — 12,192 ratings
42 | The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) | Stephen King | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 332,626 ratings
43 | The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy | 4.22 avg rating — 160,262 ratings
44 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | 4.02 avg rating — 202,772 ratings
45 | Pet Sematary | Stephen King | 3.90 avg rating — 281,735 ratings
46 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 3.81 avg rating — 54,419 ratings
47 | The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) | Barbara Kingsolver | 3.94 avg rating — 109,163 ratings
48 | Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1) | Scott Turow | 4.09 avg rating — 91,138 ratings
49 | So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) | Douglas Adams | 4.07 avg rating — 104,024 ratings
50 | The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4) | Tom Clancy | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 268,808 ratings
51 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | 3.86 avg rating — 67,408 ratings
52 | The BFG | Roald Dahl | 4.21 avg rating — 248,684 ratings
53 | The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler | 3.90 avg rating — 79,566 ratings
54 | The Hotel New Hampshire | John Irving | 3.88 avg rating — 49,116 ratings
55 | Contact | Carl Sagan | 4.10 avg rating — 91,531 ratings
56 | Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) | Terry Pratchett | 4.21 avg rating — 133,855 ratings
57 | A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | 4.07 avg rating — 131,911 ratings
58 | Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco | 3.89 avg rating — 47,099 ratings
59 | The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1) | Terry Pratchett | 3.97 avg rating — 212,426 ratings
60 | Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) | Patricia MacLachlan | 3.72 avg rating — 58,765 ratings
61 | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) | Dan Simmons | 4.20 avg rating — 123,308 ratings
62 | Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) | Orson Scott Card | 4.04 avg rating — 175,942 ratings
63 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1) | Alvin Schwartz | 4.05 avg rating — 38,673 ratings
64 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) | Douglas Adams | 3.97 avg rating — 92,415 ratings
65 | Christine | Stephen King | 3.72 avg rating — 154,253 ratings
66 | Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2) | Terry Pratchett | 4.10 avg rating — 66,319 ratings
67 | The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1) | Robert Ludlum | 3.97 avg rating — 326,086 ratings
68 | The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 3.71 avg rating — 41,224 ratings
69 | The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) | Stephen King | 4.22 avg rating — 144,316 ratings
70 | The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | 3.55 avg rating — 82,040 ratings
71 | The Lover | Marguerite Duras | 3.76 avg rating — 23,280 ratings
72 | Less Than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 3.58 avg rating — 49,224 ratings
73 | The Talisman (The Talisman, #1) | Stephen King | 4.12 avg rating — 83,931 ratings
74 | Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch #1) | Terry Pratchett | 4.31 avg rating — 112,827 ratings
75 | The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3) | Jean M. Auel | 3.87 avg rating — 49,667 ratings
76 | Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) | Tamora Pierce | 4.27 avg rating — 87,859 ratings
77 | Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | 3.98 avg rating — 81,233 ratings
78 | Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) | Patricia Cornwell | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 166,333 ratings
79 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 3.82 avg rating — 28,960 ratings
80 | Batman: The Killing Joke | Alan Moore | 4.36 avg rating — 116,848 ratings
81 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel García Márquez | 3.95 avg rating — 75,990 ratings
82 | Redwall (Redwall, #1) | Brian Jacques | 4.10 avg rating — 77,980 ratings
83 | The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2) | Jean M. Auel | 3.98 avg rating — 58,562 ratings
84 | Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | 3.98 avg rating — 16,376 ratings
85 | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | 4.12 avg rating — 74,506 ratings
86 | The Eyes of the Dragon | Stephen King | 3.92 avg rating — 79,071 ratings
87 | Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) | Martin Cruz Smith | 4.04 avg rating — 46,606 ratings
88 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | 4.23 avg rating — 31,512 ratings
89 | Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2) | Tom Clancy | 4.10 avg rating — 137,143 ratings
90 | Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | 3.73 avg rating — 21,810 ratings
91 | The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story | Ann Rule | 4.13 avg rating — 36,532 ratings
92 | The Blue Sword (Damar, #1) | Robin McKinley | 4.23 avg rating — 45,342 ratings
93 | Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3) | John Updike | 3.89 avg rating — 12,772 ratings
94 | The Lord God Made Them All | James Herriot | 4.38 avg rating — 15,863 ratings
95 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 4.11 avg rating — 169,035 ratings
96 | Galápagos | Kurt Vonnegut | 3.87 avg rating — 52,201 ratings
97 | Winter's Tale | Mark Helprin | 3.50 avg rating — 22,499 ratings
98 | Many Waters (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #4) | Madeleine L'Engle | 4.01 avg rating — 34,340 ratings
99 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J.M. Coetzee | 3.94 avg rating — 17,368 ratings
100 | The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Michael Chabon | 3.63 avg rating — 21,546 ratings

1970
1 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) | Douglas Adams | 4.20 avg rating — 974,746 ratings
2 | Watership Down (Watership Down #1) | Richard Adams | 4.05 avg rating — 297,504 ratings
3 | The Stand | Stephen King | 4.34 avg rating — 449,459 ratings
4 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman | 4.25 avg rating — 632,596 ratings
5 | The Shining (The Shining #1) | Stephen King | 4.16 avg rating — 792,725 ratings
6 | Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) | Anne Rice | 3.97 avg rating — 383,642 ratings
7 | The World According to Garp | John Irving | 4.07 avg rating — 174,645 ratings
8 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 4.21 avg rating — 258,585 ratings
9 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | 4.28 avg rating — 1,000,933 ratings
10 | Roots: The Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley | 4.41 avg rating — 118,700 ratings
11 | Carrie | Stephen King | 3.92 avg rating — 357,785 ratings
12 | Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) | James Clavell | 4.36 avg rating — 111,127 ratings
13 | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | 4.31 avg rating — 96,080 ratings
14 | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 4.35 avg rating — 224,546 ratings
15 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | 3.98 avg rating — 238,867 ratings
16 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 4.08 avg rating — 231,460 ratings
17 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 3.97 avg rating — 341,293 ratings
18 | Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 4.18 avg rating — 69,215 ratings
19 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 4.13 avg rating — 123,436 ratings
20 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.09 avg rating — 179,603 ratings
21 | The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | 3.86 avg rating — 153,877 ratings
22 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré | 4.03 avg rating — 46,781 ratings
23 | The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | 4.17 avg rating — 119,876 ratings
24 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | 3.75 avg rating — 146,892 ratings
25 | The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom | Corrie ten Boom | 4.41 avg rating — 169,678 ratings
26 | Go Ask Alice | Beatrice Sparks | 3.77 avg rating — 200,938 ratings
27 | Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow | 3.87 avg rating — 29,197 ratings
28 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | 3.80 avg rating — 144,169 ratings
29 | Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders | Vincent Bugliosi | 3.99 avg rating — 91,072 ratings
30 | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein | 4.15 avg rating — 32,762 ratings
31 | The Dead Zone | Stephen King | 3.89 avg rating — 134,951 ratings
32 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60,491 ratings
33 | The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) | Michael Shaara | 4.30 avg rating — 60,718 ratings
34 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | Dee Brown | 4.20 avg rating — 42,046 ratings
35 | 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | 4.19 avg rating — 27,807 ratings
36 | Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | 4.16 avg rating — 96,194 ratings
37 | A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #3) | Madeleine L'Engle | 4.12 avg rating — 77,079 ratings
38 | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | 3.85 avg rating — 178,407 ratings
39 | The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1) | Mary Stewart | 4.12 avg rating — 35,204 ratings
40 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | 4.03 avg rating — 119,054 ratings
41 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | 4.24 avg rating — 85,911 ratings
42 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1) | Robert C. O'Brien | 4.12 avg rating — 138,148 ratings
43 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | 3.89 avg rating — 157,921 ratings
44 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino | 4.08 avg rating — 50,803 ratings
45 | That Was Then, This Is Now | S.E. Hinton | 3.89 avg rating — 23,163 ratings
46 | The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank | Erma Bombeck | 4.11 avg rating — 8,629 ratings
47 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 4.03 avg rating — 27,161 ratings
48 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 3.98 avg rating — 117,774 ratings
49 | Frog and Toad Are Friends (Frog and Toad, #1) | Arnold Lobel | 4.17 avg rating — 68,522 ratings
50 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Roald Dahl | 4.02 avg rating — 70,884 ratings
51 | Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School #1) | Louis Sachar | 4.14 avg rating — 76,050 ratings
52 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century | Barbara W. Tuchman | 4.11 avg rating — 21,644 ratings
53 | A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #2) | Madeleine L'Engle | 4.08 avg rating — 91,440 ratings
54 | The Trumpet of the Swan | E.B. White | 4.05 avg rating — 52,816 ratings
54 | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) | Roald Dahl | 3.63 avg rating — 66,277 ratings
56 | Kane and Abel (Kane and Abel, #1) | Jeffrey Archer | 4.26 avg rating — 75,892 ratings
57 | The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1) | Herman Wouk | 4.36 avg rating — 41,841 ratings
58 | Deliverance | James Dickey | 3.86 avg rating — 24,846 ratings
59 | The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2) | Susan Cooper | 4.07 avg rating — 41,828 ratings
60 | A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1) | Ellis Peters | 3.99 avg rating — 24,550 ratings
61 | All Things Bright and Beautiful | James Herriot | 4.29 avg rating — 58,587 ratings
62 | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1) | Judy Blume | 4.09 avg rating — 105,105 ratings
63 | All Things Wise and Wonderful | James Herriot | 4.38 avg rating — 21,645 ratings
64 | The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 4.23 avg rating — 31,987 ratings
65 | The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | 4.07 avg rating — 14,659 ratings
66 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 4.18 avg rating — 49,235 ratings
67 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | 4.04 avg rating — 59,168 ratings
68 | Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1) | Anne McCaffrey | 4.23 avg rating — 38,454 ratings
69 | Ghost Story | Peter Straub | 3.95 avg rating — 52,500 ratings
70 | The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2) | Mary Stewart | 4.23 avg rating — 17,592 ratings
71 | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast | Robin McKinley | 4.05 avg rating — 59,260 ratings
72 | My Name Is Asher Lev | Chaim Potok | 4.18 avg rating — 29,908 ratings
73 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 4.27 avg rating — 40,801 ratings
74 | Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | 3.44 avg rating — 14,314 ratings
75 | The Other Side of Midnight (Midnight #1) | Sidney Sheldon | 3.89 avg rating — 35,498 ratings
76 | Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) | Arthur C. Clarke | 4.06 avg rating — 99,121 ratings
77 | The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin | 4.09 avg rating — 32,259 ratings
78 | The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) | Joe Haldeman | 4.15 avg rating — 96,371 ratings
79 | Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2) | John Updike | 3.79 avg rating — 11,348 ratings
80 | War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) | Herman Wouk | 4.38 avg rating — 27,127 ratings
81 | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | 4.04 avg rating — 13,044 ratings
82 | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | 4.19 avg rating — 36,361 ratings
83 | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor Coerr | 4.09 avg rating — 15,373 ratings
84 | The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2) | Ursula K. Le Guin | 4.07 avg rating — 64,651 ratings
85 | Ordinary People | Judith Guest | 3.90 avg rating — 15,271 ratings
86 | The Monster at the End of this Book | Jon Stone | 4.45 avg rating — 101,994 ratings
87 | The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1) | Terry Brooks | 3.75 avg rating — 63,159 ratings
88 | Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | 4.07 avg rating — 42,888 ratings
88 | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett | 4.15 avg rating — 103,576 ratings
90 | Sula | Toni Morrison | 3.85 avg rating — 40,260 ratings
91 | Ringworld (Ringworld #1) | Larry Niven | 3.96 avg rating — 78,758 ratings
92 | Dragonsinger (Harper Hall, #2) | Anne McCaffrey | 4.26 avg rating — 33,903 ratings
93 | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Jeffrey Archer | 3.99 avg rating — 30,007 ratings
94 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | 4.11 avg rating — 97,300 ratings
95 | Smiley's People | John le Carré | 4.23 avg rating — 23,981 ratings
96 | The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising, #4) | Susan Cooper | 4.18 avg rating — 29,046 ratings
97 | In the Night Kitchen | Maurice Sendak | 4.07 avg rating — 13,901 ratings
98 | Gnomes | Rien Poortvliet | 4.01 avg rating — 22,093 ratings
99 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4) | Mildred D. Taylor | 3.78 avg rating — 94,970 ratings
100 | The Far Pavilions | M.M. Kaye | 4.20 avg rating — 33,482 ratings

1960
1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 4.25 avg rating — 3,215,475 ratings
2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 4.18 avg rating — 496,773 ratings
3 | The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | 4.05 avg rating — 651,869 ratings
4 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.05 avg rating — 854,637 ratings
5 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 3.97 avg rating — 558,776 ratings
6 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) | Roald Dahl | 4.10 avg rating — 485,036 ratings
7 | A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) | Madeleine L'Engle | 4.04 avg rating — 616,709 ratings
8 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss | 4.29 avg rating — 453,372 ratings
9 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 4.04 avg rating — 390,600 ratings
10 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 4.22 avg rating — 610,659 ratings
11 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 4.03 avg rating — 554,968 ratings
12 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 3.97 avg rating — 426,147 ratings
13 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 4.18 avg rating — 501,902 ratings
14 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 3.97 avg rating — 436,026 ratings
15 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 4.35 avg rating — 260,885 ratings
16 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 4.05 avg rating — 316,353 ratings
17 | The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | 4.38 avg rating — 678,172 ratings
18 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.18 avg rating — 263,057 ratings
19 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 4.28 avg rating — 291,699 ratings
20 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 4.32 avg rating — 145,665 ratings
21 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | 3.99 avg rating — 278,085 ratings
22 | Island of the Blue Dolphins (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #1) | Scott O'Dell | 3.80 avg rating — 240,142 ratings
23 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) | Arthur C. Clarke | 4.11 avg rating — 171,539 ratings
24 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 3.90 avg rating — 221,736 ratings
25 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 3.94 avg rating — 69,204 ratings
26 | Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2) | Ray Bradbury | 3.95 avg rating — 69,131 ratings
27 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 4.22 avg rating — 177,640 ratings
28 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 4.08 avg rating — 232,537 ratings
29 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | 4.06 avg rating — 67,627 ratings
30 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | John le Carré | 4.05 avg rating — 42,410 ratings
31 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 4.04 avg rating — 273,035 ratings
32 | Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | 3.98 avg rating — 158,852 ratings
33 | Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy #1) | Louise Fitzhugh | 3.96 avg rating — 75,172 ratings
34 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | 4.14 avg rating — 138,781 ratings
35 | Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | 3.96 avg rating — 79,887 ratings
36 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson | 4.05 avg rating — 45,218 ratings
37 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 4.05 avg rating — 66,776 ratings
38 | The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton | 3.86 avg rating — 172,239 ratings
39 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 3.85 avg rating — 37,291 ratings
40 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 3.89 avg rating — 62,397 ratings
41 | Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | 3.69 avg rating — 34,893 ratings
42 | A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) | Ursula K. Le Guin | 3.99 avg rating — 160,377 ratings
43 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | 4.29 avg rating — 120,735 ratings
44 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 4.18 avg rating — 267,405 ratings
45 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 3.93 avg rating — 24,077 ratings
46 | Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 3.69 avg rating — 40,125 ratings
47 | The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) | Peter S. Beagle | 4.18 avg rating — 78,632 ratings
48 | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 4.04 avg rating — 86,762 ratings
49 | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | 4.03 avg rating — 71,052 ratings
50 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr. | 3.97 avg rating — 68,543 ratings
51 | Travels with Charley: In Search of America | John Steinbeck | 4.06 avg rating — 49,329 ratings
52 | Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1) | John Updike | 3.57 avg rating — 40,804 ratings
53 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | 4.09 avg rating — 45,221 ratings
54 | Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1) | Anne McCaffrey | 4.10 avg rating — 96,868 ratings
55 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | 4.17 avg rating — 82,527 ratings
56 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 3.56 avg rating — 42,812 ratings
57 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 3.71 avg rating — 52,645 ratings
58 | Papillon | Henri Charrière | 4.23 avg rating — 41,698 ratings
59 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 3.68 avg rating — 96,688 ratings
60 | Fox in Socks | Dr. Seuss | 4.03 avg rating — 42,216 ratings
61 | The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 3.85 avg rating — 15,727 ratings
62 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 3.76 avg rating — 29,279 ratings
63 | The Magus | John Fowles | 4.04 avg rating — 35,710 ratings
64 | Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories | Flannery O'Connor | 4.27 avg rating — 14,515 ratings
65 | Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Encyclopedia Brown, #1) | Donald J. Sobol | 4.03 avg rating — 30,393 ratings
66 | The Collector | John Fowles | 3.99 avg rating — 34,866 ratings
67 | Mother Night | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.20 avg rating — 53,550 ratings
68 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 4.19 avg rating — 29,672 ratings
69 | The Sneetches and Other Stories | Dr. Seuss | 4.31 avg rating — 53,612 ratings
70 | The Incredible Journey | Sheila Burnford | 4.16 avg rating — 42,511 ratings
71 | Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) | Joy Adamson | 4.16 avg rating — 28,874 ratings
72 | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9) | Agatha Christie | 3.88 avg rating — 21,821 ratings
73 | The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1) | Lloyd Alexander | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,108 ratings
74 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 4.09 avg rating — 60,718 ratings
75 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings | Jorge Luis Borges | 4.46 avg rating — 22,461 ratings
76 | The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | 4.18 avg rating — 35,009 ratings
77 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe | 3.92 avg rating — 56,437 ratings
78 | The Winter of Our Discontent | John Steinbeck | 3.99 avg rating — 29,765 ratings
79 | Cancer Ward | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 4.19 avg rating — 9,793 ratings
80 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | 4.10 avg rating — 54,336 ratings
81 | Ariel | Sylvia Plath | 4.23 avg rating — 36,298 ratings
82 | Up the Down Staircase | Bel Kaufman | 3.93 avg rating — 7,098 ratings
83 | Herzog | Saul Bellow | 3.79 avg rating — 14,772 ratings
84 | The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #1) | Dorothy Gilman | 4.14 avg rating — 16,324 ratings
85 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 4.24 avg rating — 16,026 ratings
86 | Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2) | Beverly Cleary | 4.04 avg rating — 53,603 ratings
87 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, #1) | Ian Fleming | 3.99 avg rating — 10,250 ratings
88 | Are You My Mother? | P.D. Eastman | 4.16 avg rating — 168,662 ratings
89 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | 3.96 avg rating — 11,584 ratings
90 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 3.75 avg rating — 14,654 ratings
91 | Bread and Jam for Frances | Russell Hoban | 4.20 avg rating — 27,691 ratings
92 | Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga | Hunter S. Thompson | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32,128 ratings
93 | The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry | 3.95 avg rating — 10,590 ratings
94 | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt | 3.89 avg rating — 9,079 ratings
95 | The Graduate (The Graduate, #1) | Charles Webb | 3.40 avg rating — 6,053 ratings
96 | The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosiński | 3.94 avg rating — 15,241 ratings
97 | The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | 4.13 avg rating — 80,000 ratings
98 | V. | Thomas Pynchon | 3.97 avg rating — 15,556 ratings
99 | The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain #2) | Lloyd Alexander | 4.13 avg rating — 50,209 ratings
100 | Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2) | James Clavell | 4.24 avg rating — 34,842 ratings

1950
1 | The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.47 avg rating — 417,828 ratings
2 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 3.79 avg rating — 2,024,955 ratings
3 | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 4.14 avg rating — 1,029,374 ratings
4 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) | C.S. Lewis | 4.19 avg rating — 1,497,512 ratings
5 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 3.64 avg rating — 1,600,572 ratings
6 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 3.97 avg rating — 1,116,102 ratings
7 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 3.88 avg rating — 479,651 ratings
8 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 3.72 avg rating — 536,334 ratings
9 | Night | Elie Wiesel | 4.29 avg rating — 670,429 ratings
10 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 4.34 avg rating — 323,998 ratings
11 | The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.33 avg rating — 1,739,737 ratings
12 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 3.65 avg rating — 268,259 ratings
13 | The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.50 avg rating — 489,064 ratings
14 | The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) | C.S. Lewis | 4.24 avg rating — 390,425 ratings
15 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 3.54 avg rating — 243,533 ratings
16 | The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.41 avg rating — 509,385 ratings
17 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | Dr. Seuss | 4.36 avg rating — 247,377 ratings
18 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 3.83 avg rating — 122,358 ratings
19 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 4.12 avg rating — 147,984 ratings
20 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote | 3.89 avg rating — 147,828 ratings
21 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 4.05 avg rating — 316,353 ratings
22 | The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4) | T.H. White | 4.08 avg rating — 81,012 ratings
23 | Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) | Chinua Achebe | 3.60 avg rating — 202,688 ratings
24 | The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | 4.15 avg rating — 311,470 ratings
25 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 3.81 avg rating — 105,973 ratings
26 | The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) | C.S. Lewis | 4.01 avg rating — 290,873 ratings
27 | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) | C.S. Lewis | 4.08 avg rating — 314,735 ratings
28 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | 3.56 avg rating — 158,357 ratings
29 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 4.04 avg rating — 64,544 ratings
30 | Foundation (Foundation #1) | Isaac Asimov | 4.12 avg rating — 282,060 ratings
31 | The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) | C.S. Lewis | 3.90 avg rating — 200,490 ratings
32 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | 3.96 avg rating — 109,305 ratings
33 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 3.89 avg rating — 58,428 ratings
34 | The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) | Patricia Highsmith | 3.92 avg rating — 35,148 ratings
35 | Horton Hears a Who! | Dr. Seuss | 4.16 avg rating — 81,714 ratings
36 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | 3.96 avg rating — 31,921 ratings
37 | I, Robot (Robot #0.1) | Isaac Asimov | 4.17 avg rating — 200,694 ratings
38 | Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) | C.S. Lewis | 3.96 avg rating — 263,788 ratings
39 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | 4.08 avg rating — 44,961 ratings
40 | Nine Stories | J.D. Salinger | 4.19 avg rating — 114,972 ratings
41 | Exodus | Leon Uris | 4.33 avg rating — 76,779 ratings
42 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 3.68 avg rating — 286,270 ratings
43 | The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1) | Mary Norton | 4.02 avg rating — 74,842 ratings
44 | The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) | C.S. Lewis | 3.95 avg rating — 178,244 ratings
45 | Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | 3.98 avg rating — 158,852 ratings
46 | The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 3.95 avg rating — 32,383 ratings
47 | The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 3.96 avg rating — 29,419 ratings
48 | Hawaii | James A. Michener | 4.18 avg rating — 60,113 ratings
49 | Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson | 4.24 avg rating — 107,714 ratings
50 | The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.15 avg rating — 79,411 ratings
51 | The Fall | Albert Camus | 4.05 avg rating — 47,653 ratings
52 | A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories | Flannery O'Connor | 4.25 avg rating — 28,487 ratings
53 | Howl and Other Poems | Allen Ginsberg | 4.14 avg rating — 72,079 ratings
54 | A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #5) | Agatha Christie | 3.95 avg rating — 28,281 ratings
55 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute | 3.92 avg rating — 26,605 ratings
56 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | 3.99 avg rating — 138,865 ratings
57 | A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1) | Michael Bond | 4.21 avg rating — 62,271 ratings
58 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler | 4.23 avg rating — 23,751 ratings
59 | The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) | Josephine Tey | 3.96 avg rating — 16,947 ratings
60 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 3.99 avg rating — 28,439 ratings
61 | A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | 3.71 avg rating — 48,792 ratings
62 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 4.12 avg rating — 38,030 ratings
63 | My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier | 3.89 avg rating — 15,650 ratings
64 | Memoirs of Hadrian | Marguerite Yourcenar | 4.25 avg rating — 10,649 ratings
65 | The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk | 4.22 avg rating — 15,925 ratings
66 | I Am Legend and Other Stories | Richard Matheson | 3.99 avg rating — 100,433 ratings
67 | My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) | Gerald Durrell | 4.27 avg rating — 22,130 ratings
68 | The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) | C.S. Lewis | 4.02 avg rating — 168,594 ratings
69 | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 3.46 avg rating — 59,846 ratings
70 | Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) | Ian Fleming | 3.73 avg rating — 44,303 ratings
71 | Little Bear | Else Holmelund Minarik | 4.21 avg rating — 46,146 ratings
72 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | 4.09 avg rating — 91,486 ratings
73 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | 3.99 avg rating — 62,989 ratings
74 | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 3.98 avg rating — 13,628 ratings
74 | Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence | 3.96 avg rating — 17,212 ratings
76 | Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene | 3.94 avg rating — 17,361 ratings
77 | The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.33 avg rating — 127,372 ratings
78 | A Night to Remember | Walter Lord | 3.99 avg rating — 12,826 ratings
79 | 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #8) | Agatha Christie | 3.92 avg rating — 27,220 ratings
80 | The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) | Isaac Asimov | 4.39 avg rating — 72,561 ratings
81 | Bonjour tristesse | Françoise Sagan | 3.62 avg rating — 15,827 ratings
82 | The Third Man | Graham Greene | 3.84 avg rating — 8,631 ratings
83 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Jean Kerr | 3.93 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
84 | Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #28) | Agatha Christie | 3.80 avg rating — 12,347 ratings
85 | The Grand Sophy | Georgette Heyer | 4.16 avg rating — 17,775 ratings
86 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham | 3.92 avg rating — 31,682 ratings
87 | Till We Have Faces | C.S. Lewis | 4.18 avg rating — 37,054 ratings
88 | Katherine | Anya Seton | 4.18 avg rating — 23,299 ratings
89 | Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1) | Beverly Cleary | 3.96 avg rating — 75,915 ratings
90 | A Child's Christmas in Wales | Dylan Thomas | 4.16 avg rating — 3,526 ratings
91 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | 4.13 avg rating — 31,506 ratings
92 | The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac | 3.94 avg rating — 65,752 ratings
93 | The Miracle Worker | William Gibson | 4.21 avg rating — 28,682 ratings
94 | Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories | Philip Roth | 3.87 avg rating — 12,359 ratings
95 | Seize the Day | Saul Bellow | 3.56 avg rating — 7,552 ratings
96 | Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | 3.90 avg rating — 13,342 ratings
97 | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | 3.84 avg rating — 10,587 ratings
97 | Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | 3.73 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
99 | The Mandarins | Simone de Beauvoir | 4.12 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
100 | Speak, Memory | Vladimir Nabokov | 4.18 avg rating — 8,967 ratings

1940
1 | 1984 | George Orwell | 4.13 avg rating — 1,926,216 ratings
2 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 3.86 avg rating — 1,907,394 ratings
3 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 4.09 avg rating — 1,961,650 ratings
4 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 4.28 avg rating — 798,322 ratings
5 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 4.25 avg rating — 4,034 ratings
6 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 3.95 avg rating — 453,316 ratings
7 | The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | 4.11 avg rating — 21,918 ratings
8 | Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 4.47 avg rating — 32,176 ratings
9 | Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | 4.10 avg rating — 21,386 ratings
10 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | 3.48 avg rating — 141,186 ratings
11 | Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 4.11 avg rating — 125,745 ratings
12 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 3.97 avg rating — 194,130 ratings
13 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 3.95 avg rating — 198,607 ratings
14 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 4.23 avg rating — 300,025 ratings
15 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 4.27 avg rating — 247,863 ratings
16 | Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949 | Robert Frost | 4.42 avg rating — 448 ratings
17 | Hiroshima | John Hersey | 3.93 avg rating — 40,786 ratings
18 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 3.99 avg rating — 73,028 ratings
19 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 3.96 avg rating — 71,920 ratings
20 | The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | 4.20 avg rating — 227,541 ratings
21 | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 3.99 avg rating — 22,144 ratings
22 | Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl | 4.09 avg rating — 14,855 ratings
23 | The Plague | Albert Camus | 3.97 avg rating — 106,493 ratings
24 | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 4.09 avg rating — 20,038 ratings
25 | Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 4.01 avg rating — 83,998 ratings
26 | The Pearl | John Steinbeck | 3.39 avg rating — 138,631 ratings
27 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62,897 ratings
28 | The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | 3.67 avg rating — 90,177 ratings
29 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 3.86 avg rating — 51,663 ratings
30 | Make Way for Ducklings | Robert McCloskey | 4.21 avg rating — 71,119 ratings
31 | All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 4.08 avg rating — 45,782 ratings
32 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 3.84 avg rating — 247,381 ratings
33 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | 3.98 avg rating — 20,359 ratings
34 | Four Quartets | T.S. Eliot | 4.37 avg rating — 10,966 ratings
35 | The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 4.18 avg rating — 27,366 ratings
36 | Cheaper by the Dozen | Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. | 3.99 avg rating — 27,247 ratings
37 | The Lottery and Other Stories | Shirley Jackson | 4.06 avg rating — 49,970 ratings
38 | Stuart Little | E.B. White | 3.88 avg rating — 87,782 ratings
39 | No Exit and Three Other Plays | Jean-Paul Sartre | 4.08 avg rating — 21,799 ratings
40 | Pat the Bunny | Dorothy Kunhardt | 4.06 avg rating — 19,482 ratings
41 | Curious George | H.A. Rey | 4.13 avg rating — 110,435 ratings
42 | Native Son | Richard Wright | 3.95 avg rating — 67,749 ratings
43 | The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) | Agatha Christie | 3.84 avg rating — 39,521 ratings
44 | Corduroy | Don Freeman | 4.28 avg rating — 159,347 ratings
45 | Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | 4.17 avg rating — 23,077 ratings
46 | The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1) | Gertrude Chandler Warner | 4.08 avg rating — 90,041 ratings
47 | Horton Hatches the Egg | Dr. Seuss | 4.13 avg rating — 29,320 ratings
48 | Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) | Mervyn Peake | 3.90 avg rating — 11,258 ratings
49 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | 4.06 avg rating — 18,482 ratings
50 | Black Boy | Richard Wright | 4.02 avg rating — 38,486 ratings
51 | The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) | C.S. Lewis | 4.24 avg rating — 390,425 ratings
52 | The Lottery | Shirley Jackson | 4.10 avg rating — 37,832 ratings
53 | The Member of the Wedding | Carson McCullers | 3.80 avg rating — 11,030 ratings
54 | Doctor Faustus | Thomas Mann | 4.07 avg rating — 7,095 ratings
55 | The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 3.92 avg rating — 19,033 ratings
56 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 3.80 avg rating — 17,354 ratings
57 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1) | Betty MacDonald | 4.16 avg rating — 43,825 ratings
58 | The Long Winter (Little House, #6) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.17 avg rating — 55,267 ratings
59 | The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer | 3.94 avg rating — 19,356 ratings
60 | Antigone | Jean Anouilh | 3.80 avg rating — 11,973 ratings
61 | Homer Price | Robert McCloskey | 4.07 avg rating — 16,568 ratings
62 | Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.19 avg rating — 65,234 ratings
63 | These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.16 avg rating — 52,048 ratings
64 | The Lady in the Lake | Raymond Chandler | 4.06 avg rating — 12,483 ratings
65 | The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1) | Walter Farley | 4.18 avg rating — 61,717 ratings
66 | Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business | Esphyr Slobodkina | 4.12 avg rating — 71,411 ratings
67 | Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes | Edith Hamilton | 3.98 avg rating — 34,368 ratings
68 | Death Be Not Proud | John Gunther | 3.81 avg rating — 9,380 ratings
69 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes | 3.61 avg rating — 31,796 ratings
70 | Pippi in the South Seas | Astrid Lindgren | 4.10 avg rating — 14,499 ratings
71 | That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) | C.S. Lewis | 3.87 avg rating — 22,631 ratings
72 | The Aleph and Other Stories | Jorge Luis Borges | 4.39 avg rating — 21,553 ratings
73 | Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24) | Agatha Christie | 3.95 avg rating — 22,834 ratings
74 | All My Sons | Arthur Miller | 3.87 avg rating — 14,969 ratings
75 | Brat Farrar | Josephine Tey | 4.01 avg rating — 4,801 ratings
76 | The Love of the Last Tycoon | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.66 avg rating — 7,234 ratings
77 | The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) | Agatha Christie | 3.83 avg rating — 17,173 ratings
78 | Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23) | Agatha Christie | 3.94 avg rating — 30,409 ratings
79 | The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton | 4.29 avg rating — 33,940 ratings
80 | Embers | Sándor Márai | 3.91 avg rating — 10,111 ratings
81 | The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill | 3.96 avg rating — 6,490 ratings
82 | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois | 3.97 avg rating — 17,960 ratings
83 | The Age of Reason | Jean-Paul Sartre | 3.96 avg rating — 8,734 ratings
84 | An Inspector Calls | J.B. Priestley | 3.70 avg rating — 10,149 ratings
85 | West with the Night | Beryl Markham | 4.18 avg rating — 20,445 ratings
86 | The Loved One | Evelyn Waugh | 3.79 avg rating — 8,052 ratings
87 | Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima | 3.90 avg rating — 8,229 ratings
88 | Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | 3.96 avg rating — 18,363 ratings
89 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić | 4.33 avg rating — 9,047 ratings
90 | Chess Story | Stefan Zweig | 4.27 avg rating — 26,449 ratings
91 | Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner | 3.93 avg rating — 7,555 ratings
92 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | 4.25 avg rating — 20,040 ratings
93 | Mildred Pierce | James M. Cain | 3.93 avg rating — 5,947 ratings
94 | The Little Sister | Raymond Chandler | 4.03 avg rating — 9,404 ratings
95 | The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1) | Betty MacDonald | 3.97 avg rating — 5,960 ratings
96 | The High Window | Raymond Chandler | 4.08 avg rating — 11,549 ratings
97 | The Hamlet | William Faulkner | 3.87 avg rating — 3,751 ratings
98 | Pippi Goes on Board | Astrid Lindgren | 4.10 avg rating — 9,604 ratings
99 | The Great Divorce | C.S. Lewis | 4.28 avg rating — 78,197 ratings
100 | The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati | 4.12 avg rating — 7,951 ratings

1930
1 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.24 avg rating — 2,114,691 ratings
2 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 4.28 avg rating — 866,431 ratings
3 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 3.96 avg rating — 1,026,378 ratings
4 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 3.83 avg rating — 1,465,757 ratings
5 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 3.92 avg rating — 527,968 ratings
6 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 4.20 avg rating — 314,380 ratings
7 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 4.22 avg rating — 425,342 ratings
8 | Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.15 avg rating — 169,073 ratings
9 | Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) | Agatha Christie | 4.15 avg rating — 155,385 ratings
10 | The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) | Pearl S. Buck | 3.97 avg rating — 188,782 ratings
11 | Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.19 avg rating — 190,320 ratings
12 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 3.72 avg rating — 106,457 ratings
13 | Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans | 4.22 avg rating — 149,264 ratings
14 | Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.83 avg rating — 82,362 ratings
15 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 4.04 avg rating — 85,931 ratings
16 | I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) | Robert Graves | 4.27 avg rating — 40,288 ratings
17 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 3.86 avg rating — 189,940 ratings
18 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | 3.92 avg rating — 64,677 ratings
19 | Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17) | Agatha Christie | 4.05 avg rating — 69,393 ratings
20 | Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1) | P.L. Travers | 4.05 avg rating — 84,100 ratings
21 | Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) | Agatha Christie | 4.03 avg rating — 94,222 ratings
22 | The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper | 4.14 avg rating — 82,267 ratings
23 | On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.18 avg rating — 78,833 ratings
24 | The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | 4.35 avg rating — 69,693 ratings
25 | Light in August | William Faulkner | 3.93 avg rating — 43,100 ratings
26 | The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) | Agatha Christie | 3.97 avg rating — 53,392 ratings
27 | The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King, #1) | T.H. White | 3.92 avg rating — 18,863 ratings
28 | Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell | 4.10 avg rating — 37,999 ratings
29 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder | 3.63 avg rating — 35,577 ratings
30 | Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 3.91 avg rating — 57,921 ratings
31 | Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.03 avg rating — 47,965 ratings
32 | Lost Horizon | James Hilton | 3.89 avg rating — 12,374 ratings
33 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 3.96 avg rating — 31,278 ratings
34 | Narcissus and Goldmund | Hermann Hesse | 4.19 avg rating — 31,128 ratings
35 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 3.92 avg rating — 31,942 ratings
36 | Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.26 avg rating — 15,449 ratings
37 | The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett | 3.97 avg rating — 21,020 ratings
38 | Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | 4.14 avg rating — 24,038 ratings
39 | By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.16 avg rating — 54,644 ratings
40 | Farmer Boy (Little House, #3) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.04 avg rating — 43,655 ratings
41 | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats | T.S. Eliot | 4.09 avg rating — 16,792 ratings
42 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 4.25 avg rating — 4,034 ratings
43 | Joy of Cooking | Irma S. Rombauer | 4.14 avg rating — 99,631 ratings
44 | Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, #1) | C.S. Lewis | 3.92 avg rating — 54,150 ratings
45 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | 3.92 avg rating — 18,400 ratings
46 | Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 4.25 avg rating — 21,160 ratings
47 | Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh | 3.82 avg rating — 9,302 ratings
48 | The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) | P.G. Wodehouse | 4.36 avg rating — 16,281 ratings
49 | The Poetry of Robert Frost | Robert Frost | 4.23 avg rating — 33,428 ratings
50 | Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.14 avg rating — 20,078 ratings
51 | Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14) | Agatha Christie | 3.86 avg rating — 22,986 ratings
52 | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Virginia Lee Burton | 4.19 avg rating — 42,383 ratings
53 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 3.72 avg rating — 15,539 ratings
54 | Double Indemnity | James M. Cain | 4.12 avg rating — 13,989 ratings
55 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 3.71 avg rating — 47,563 ratings
56 | The Waves | Virginia Woolf | 4.14 avg rating — 17,658 ratings
57 | The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.07 avg rating — 11,344 ratings
58 | Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.05 avg rating — 37,086 ratings
59 | The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | 3.42 avg rating — 39,498 ratings
60 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | Dr. Seuss | 4.02 avg rating — 11,428 ratings
61 | The Story of Babar | Jean de Brunhoff | 4.07 avg rating — 49,982 ratings
62 | To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | 3.57 avg rating — 17,932 ratings
63 | Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3) | John Fante | 4.14 avg rating — 19,277 ratings
64 | Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.22 avg rating — 15,232 ratings
65 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard Atwater | 3.95 avg rating — 49,857 ratings
66 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 3.98 avg rating — 22,320 ratings
67 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | 3.99 avg rating — 38,370 ratings
68 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain | 3.81 avg rating — 22,024 ratings
69 | At the Mountains of Madness | H.P. Lovecraft | 3.93 avg rating — 18,470 ratings
70 | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | 3.96 avg rating — 22,699 ratings
71 | Appointment in Samarra | John O'Hara | 3.83 avg rating — 10,899 ratings
72 | Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage (Shoes, #1) | Noel Streatfeild | 4.06 avg rating — 27,371 ratings
73 | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | 4.16 avg rating — 25,624 ratings
74 | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 3.87 avg rating — 13,058 ratings
75 | My Life and Hard Times | James Thurber | 4.15 avg rating — 2,455 ratings
76 | Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Eliot | 3.74 avg rating — 5,706 ratings
77 | Burmese Days | George Orwell | 3.83 avg rating — 13,874 ratings
78 | The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1 | Robert Musil | 4.37 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
79 | The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | 4.07 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
80 | Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19) | Agatha Christie | 3.84 avg rating — 22,646 ratings
81 | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | 3.70 avg rating — 4,814 ratings
82 | The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, #1) | Carolyn Keene | 3.97 avg rating — 46,722 ratings
83 | Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West | 3.92 avg rating — 7,846 ratings
84 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Joseph Kesselring | 4.14 avg rating — 19,560 ratings
85 | Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.13 avg rating — 10,779 ratings
86 | Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) | Agatha Christie | 3.87 avg rating — 17,484 ratings
87 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | James Hilton | 3.94 avg rating — 7,063 ratings
88 | Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 3.87 avg rating — 9,472 ratings
89 | Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.28 avg rating — 12,863 ratings
90 | Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20) | Agatha Christie | 3.89 avg rating — 21,598 ratings
90 | Cakes and Ale | W. Somerset Maugham | 3.76 avg rating — 4,481 ratings
90 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson | 3.98 avg rating — 9,355 ratings
93 | U.S.A., #1-3 | John Dos Passos | 4.08 avg rating — 3,906 ratings
94 | Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | 3.82 avg rating — 33,125 ratings
95 | Invitation to a Beheading | Vladimir Nabokov | 3.94 avg rating — 9,630 ratings
96 | A Universal History of Iniquity | Jorge Luis Borges | 3.98 avg rating — 4,070 ratings
97 | Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | 3.84 avg rating — 6,482 ratings
98 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill | 3.98 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
99 | Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood | 3.94 avg rating — 5,427 ratings
100 | The Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell | 3.87 avg rating — 8,327 ratings

1920
1 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.88 avg rating — 2,642,205 ratings
2 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | 4.11 avg rating — 92,033 ratings
3 | Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) | A.A. Milne | 4.33 avg rating — 209,608 ratings
4 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 3.98 avg rating — 397,302 ratings
5 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 3.91 avg rating — 249,951 ratings
6 | Being and Time | Martin Heidegger | 3.99 avg rating — 14,711 ratings
7 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | 3.98 avg rating — 149,917 ratings
8 | Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke | 4.45 avg rating — 5,470 ratings
9 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | 4.22 avg rating — 156,983 ratings
10 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 3.83 avg rating — 290,897 ratings
11 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 3.76 avg rating — 90,947 ratings
12 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 3.86 avg rating — 128,801 ratings
13 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | 4.34 avg rating — 30,397 ratings
14 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 3.93 avg rating — 110,956 ratings
15 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 3.77 avg rating — 147,451 ratings
16 | A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | 4.09 avg rating — 66,860 ratings
17 | The Waste Land and Other Poems | T.S. Eliot | 4.23 avg rating — 39,519 ratings
18 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 3.78 avg rating — 199,119 ratings
19 | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 3.66 avg rating — 50,258 ratings
20 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 3.85 avg rating — 37,089 ratings
21 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 3.73 avg rating — 82,932 ratings
22 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | 4.29 avg rating — 181,820 ratings
23 | The Decline of the West | Oswald Spengler | 4.07 avg rating — 935 ratings
24 | Sonnets to Orpheus | Rainer Maria Rilke | 4.36 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
25 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) | Agatha Christie | 4.19 avg rating — 77,253 ratings
26 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 4.14 avg rating — 24,022 ratings
27 | Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4) | Marcel Proust | 4.37 avg rating — 3,632 ratings
28 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) | Agatha Christie | 3.97 avg rating — 136,363 ratings
29 | The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3) | Marcel Proust | 4.32 avg rating — 4,675 ratings
30 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 3.48 avg rating — 71,646 ratings
31 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Jaroslav Hašek | 4.12 avg rating — 9,580 ratings
32 | This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.69 avg rating — 45,351 ratings
33 | Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7) | Marcel Proust | 4.48 avg rating — 3,383 ratings
34 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder | 3.80 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
35 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 3.87 avg rating — 22,195 ratings
36 | The Painted Veil | W. Somerset Maugham | 3.90 avg rating — 26,242 ratings
37 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | 3.77 avg rating — 5,427 ratings
38 | The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) | Marcel Proust | 4.40 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
39 | Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) | P.G. Wodehouse | 4.28 avg rating — 14,426 ratings
40 | Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 3.92 avg rating — 29,282 ratings
41 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 3.64 avg rating — 16,667 ratings
42 | The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.76 avg rating — 31,918 ratings
43 | We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 3.95 avg rating — 45,173 ratings
44 | The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2) | A.A. Milne | 4.35 avg rating — 70,554 ratings
45 | Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2) | D.H. Lawrence | 3.66 avg rating — 24,481 ratings
46 | Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.15 avg rating — 30,231 ratings
47 | Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.04 avg rating — 13,063 ratings
48 | Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain | Marcel Proust | 4.54 avg rating — 851 ratings
49 | Bambi | Felix Salten | 4.10 avg rating — 28,522 ratings
50 | When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3) | A.A. Milne | 4.32 avg rating — 17,912 ratings
51 | The Castle | Franz Kafka | 3.98 avg rating — 29,658 ratings
52 | The Enchanted April | Elizabeth von Arnim | 3.98 avg rating — 9,803 ratings
53 | Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh | 3.87 avg rating — 7,993 ratings
54 | The Garden Party and Other Stories | Katherine Mansfield | 3.88 avg rating — 4,317 ratings
55 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | 3.75 avg rating — 19,842 ratings
56 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 3.93 avg rating — 26,204 ratings
57 | Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4) | A.A. Milne | 4.38 avg rating — 16,251 ratings
58 | In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway | 3.80 avg rating — 15,485 ratings
59 | The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1) | Hugh Lofting | 3.98 avg rating — 37,975 ratings
60 | The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1) | Agatha Christie | 3.82 avg rating — 25,007 ratings
61 | Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.11 avg rating — 17,764 ratings
62 | The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) | John Galsworthy | 4.15 avg rating — 15,674 ratings
63 | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.20 avg rating — 13,780 ratings
64 | The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) | P.G. Wodehouse | 4.26 avg rating — 13,536 ratings
65 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #2) | Hugh Lofting | 3.99 avg rating — 12,441 ratings
66 | Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3) | Sigrid Undset | 4.27 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
67 | The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) | Agatha Christie | 3.79 avg rating — 21,877 ratings
68 | Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,369 ratings
69 | Dream Story | Arthur Schnitzler | 3.78 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
70 | The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.92 avg rating — 4,344 ratings
71 | The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5) | Dorothy L. Sayers | 4.05 avg rating — 10,328 ratings
72 | Goodbye to All That | Robert Graves | 4.05 avg rating — 7,453 ratings
73 | The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | 3.96 avg rating — 7,504 ratings
74 | The Waste Land | T.S. Eliot | 4.11 avg rating — 29,974 ratings
75 | Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays | Luigi Pirandello | 3.94 avg rating — 2,459 ratings
76 | Moravagine | Blaise Cendrars | 3.90 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
77 | The Blue Castle | L.M. Montgomery | 4.22 avg rating — 19,414 ratings
78 | Nadja | André Breton | 3.63 avg rating — 5,630 ratings
79 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Anita Loos | 3.62 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
80 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | 3.81 avg rating — 4,335 ratings
81 | Emil and the Detectives | Erich Kästner | 3.94 avg rating — 5,604 ratings
82 | The Most Dangerous Game | Richard Connell | 3.91 avg rating — 33,116 ratings
83 | Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe | 3.94 avg rating — 10,015 ratings
84 | Cane | Jean Toomer | 3.88 avg rating — 6,148 ratings
85 | Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo | 3.83 avg rating — 9,000 ratings
86 | The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) | Agatha Christie | 3.84 avg rating — 9,798 ratings
87 | Amerika | Franz Kafka | 3.73 avg rating — 15,814 ratings
88 | Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis | 3.98 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
89 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 4.06 avg rating — 11,622 ratings
90 | In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7) | Marcel Proust | 4.34 avg rating — 7,668 ratings
91 | The Short Stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 4.23 avg rating — 12,727 ratings
92 | Beau Geste | P.C. Wren | 3.96 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
93 | Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos | 3.69 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
94 | Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | 3.81 avg rating — 5,555 ratings
95 | Miss Mapp (Lucia, #2) | E.F. Benson | 4.19 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
96 | Partners in Crime (Tommy and Tuppence #2) | Agatha Christie | 3.76 avg rating — 9,099 ratings
97 | Captain Blood | Rafael Sabatini | 4.16 avg rating — 10,748 ratings
98 | Emily Climbs (Emily, #2) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.13 avg rating — 16,474 ratings
99 | Emily's Quest (Emily, #3) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.10 avg rating — 13,029 ratings
100 | Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1) | E.F. Benson | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,241 ratings

1910
1 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 4.11 avg rating — 661,628 ratings
2 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 3.77 avg rating — 385,496 ratings
3 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | 4.10 avg rating — 188,352 ratings
4 | Howards End | E.M. Forster | 3.95 avg rating — 56,248 ratings
5 | My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 3.76 avg rating — 97,690 ratings
6 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 3.60 avg rating — 99,708 ratings
7 | Dubliners | James Joyce | 3.85 avg rating — 87,167 ratings
8 | Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 4.11 avg rating — 37,128 ratings
9 | Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | 3.90 avg rating — 73,513 ratings
10 | Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 3.34 avg rating — 76,197 ratings
11 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 3.97 avg rating — 147,916 ratings
12 | The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) | John Buchan | 3.60 avg rating — 19,830 ratings
13 | Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) | Marcel Proust | 4.14 avg rating — 29,830 ratings
14 | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems | T.S. Eliot | 4.32 avg rating — 14,637 ratings
15 | Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.20 avg rating — 99,044 ratings
16 | Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | 3.61 avg rating — 37,237 ratings
17 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | 3.83 avg rating — 23,787 ratings
18 | Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend | Hermann Hesse | 4.10 avg rating — 46,840 ratings
19 | Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1) | Jean Webster | 4.09 avg rating — 26,889 ratings
20 | Death in Venice and Other Tales | Thomas Mann | 3.86 avg rating — 15,128 ratings
21 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 3.72 avg rating — 16,776 ratings
22 | Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.88 avg rating — 30,915 ratings
23 | The Elements of Style | William Strunk Jr. | 4.19 avg rating — 55,661 ratings
24 | Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) | Eleanor H. Porter | 3.94 avg rating — 58,107 ratings
25 | The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 3.98 avg rating — 20,123 ratings
26 | The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | Rainer Maria Rilke | 4.07 avg rating — 4,988 ratings
27 | The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce | 4.13 avg rating — 7,531 ratings
28 | O Pioneers! | Willa Cather | 3.83 avg rating — 33,584 ratings
29 | The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 3.91 avg rating — 42,813 ratings
30 | The Moon and Sixpence | W. Somerset Maugham | 4.10 avg rating — 12,361 ratings
31 | Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7) | L.M. Montgomery | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27,875 ratings
32 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | 4.01 avg rating — 7,312 ratings
33 | The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2) | Booth Tarkington | 3.74 avg rating — 7,775 ratings
34 | A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.79 avg rating — 41,366 ratings
35 | Chronicles of Avonlea | L.M. Montgomery | 3.91 avg rating — 8,521 ratings
36 | The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1) | G.K. Chesterton | 3.86 avg rating — 9,311 ratings
37 | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) | Marcel Proust | 4.40 avg rating — 6,583 ratings
38 | Kokoro | Natsume Sōseki | 3.98 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
39 | The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence | 3.67 avg rating — 15,066 ratings
40 | Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) | P.G. Wodehouse | 4.16 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
41 | Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters | 4.01 avg rating — 6,588 ratings
42 | Relativity: The Special and the General Theory | Albert Einstein | 4.16 avg rating — 12,140 ratings
43 | The Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry | 4.14 avg rating — 4,592 ratings
44 | Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.12 avg rating — 54,759 ratings
45 | Le Grand Meaulnes | Alain-Fournier | 3.77 avg rating — 6,614 ratings
46 | Summer | Edith Wharton | 3.67 avg rating — 7,958 ratings
47 | The Golem | Gustav Meyrink | 3.93 avg rating — 3,714 ratings
48 | His Last Bow: 8 Stories (Sherlock Holmes, #8) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.27 avg rating — 20,287 ratings
49 | The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse | Beatrix Potter | 3.95 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
50 | The Real Mother Goose | Blanche Fisher Wright | 4.33 avg rating — 31,483 ratings
51 | Parnassus on Wheels | Christopher Morley | really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
52 | Understood Betsy | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 4.11 avg rating — 8,436 ratings
53 | The Song of the Lark | Willa Cather | 3.90 avg rating — 5,805 ratings
54 | The Emerald City of Oz (Oz #6) | L. Frank Baum | 3.88 avg rating — 7,701 ratings
55 | Totem and Taboo | Sigmund Freud | 3.82 avg rating — 5,805 ratings
55 | Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm | 3.55 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
57 | Raggedy Ann Stories | Johnny Gruelle | 4.09 avg rating — 720 ratings
58 | Psmith in the City (Psmith, #2) | P.G. Wodehouse | 4.05 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
59 | Riders of the Purple Sage ( Riders of the Purple Sage#1) | Zane Grey | 3.69 avg rating — 6,928 ratings
60 | The Mysterious Stranger | Mark Twain | 4.16 avg rating — 5,817 ratings
61 | Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad | 3.73 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
62 | The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.79 avg rating — 6,413 ratings
63 | The Secret Sharer | Joseph Conrad | 3.60 avg rating — 3,002 ratings
64 | Ten Days that Shook the World | John Reed | 3.94 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
65 | Niebla | Miguel de Unamuno | 4.04 avg rating — 6,832 ratings
66 | Eminent Victorians | Lytton Strachey | 3.76 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
67 | The Wisdom of Father Brown (Father Brown, #2) | G.K. Chesterton | 3.90 avg rating — 2,744 ratings
68 | The Chronicles of Clovis | Saki | 4.13 avg rating — 548 ratings
69 | Victory | Joseph Conrad | 3.86 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
70 | Petersburg | Andrei Bely | 3.98 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
71 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | 3.95 avg rating — 5,344 ratings
72 | Heartbreak House | George Bernard Shaw | 3.74 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
73 | Kilmeny of the Orchard | L.M. Montgomery | 3.68 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
74 | The Waning of the Middle Ages | Johan Huizinga | 4.05 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
75 | The Outline of History, Vols. I and II (of 4) | H.G. Wells | 3.99 avg rating — 689 ratings
76 | The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.86 avg rating — 12,752 ratings
77 | Old Mother West Wind | Thornton W. Burgess | 4.12 avg rating — 817 ratings
78 | The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.76 avg rating — 3,425 ratings
79 | Les caves du Vatican | André Gide | 3.65 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
80 | Rinkitink in Oz (Oz, #10) | L. Frank Baum | 3.84 avg rating — 4,396 ratings
81 | At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar, #1) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.77 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
82 | The Story Girl | L.M. Montgomery | 3.97 avg rating — 7,464 ratings
83 | Fantômas (Fantômas, #1) | Marcel Allain | 3.67 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
84 | The American Language | H.L. Mencken | 4.21 avg rating — 365 ratings
85 | Fifty-One Tales | Lord Dunsany | 3.89 avg rating — 452 ratings
86 | The Book of Wonder | Lord Dunsany | 3.99 avg rating — 500 ratings
87 | Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2) | John Buchan | 3.77 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
88 | Penrod | Booth Tarkington | 3.95 avg rating — 876 ratings
89 | O Exército De Cavalaria | Isaac Babel | 4.07 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
90 | The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.73 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
91 | Mars Trilogy (Barsoom, #1-3) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.99 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
92 | Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan, #5) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.81 avg rating — 2,767 ratings
93 | Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8) | L. Frank Baum | 3.83 avg rating — 5,675 ratings
94 | South Sea Tales | Jack London | 3.93 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
95 | Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan, #7) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.80 avg rating — 2,182 ratings
96 | The Land That Time Forgot (Caspak, #1-3) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.88 avg rating — 6,825 ratings
97 | You Know Me Al | Ring Lardner | 3.83 avg rating — 580 ratings
98 | The Tale of Mr. Tod | Beatrix Potter | 3.91 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
99 | Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3.69 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
99 | Trent's Last Case (Phillip Trent, #1) | E.C. Bentley | 3.76 avg rating — 2,145 ratings

1900
1 | Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.22 avg rating — 510,497 ratings
2 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) | L. Frank Baum | 3.98 avg rating — 267,623 ratings
3 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.09 avg rating — 169,422 ratings
4 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 3.82 avg rating — 239,368 ratings
5 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | 4.10 avg rating — 188,352 ratings
6 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 3.98 avg rating — 133,055 ratings
7 | A Room with a View | E.M. Forster | 3.91 avg rating — 118,729 ratings
8 | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 4.20 avg rating — 202,886 ratings
9 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 3.94 avg rating — 65,656 ratings
10 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 4.16 avg rating — 161,657 ratings
11 | White Fang | Jack London | 3.93 avg rating — 108,880 ratings
12 | Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.21 avg rating — 103,834 ratings
13 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 3.71 avg rating — 106,407 ratings
14 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Emmuska Orczy | 4.06 avg rating — 100,822 ratings
15 | Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 3.72 avg rating — 29,379 ratings
16 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 3.72 avg rating — 25,612 ratings
17 | The Gift of the Magi | O. Henry | 4.07 avg rating — 69,052 ratings
18 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 3.61 avg rating — 21,961 ratings
19 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 3.67 avg rating — 21,665 ratings
20 | The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | 4.07 avg rating — 106,227 ratings
21 | Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | 4.10 avg rating — 37,383 ratings
22 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 3.97 avg rating — 147,916 ratings
23 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare | G.K. Chesterton | 3.85 avg rating — 21,874 ratings
24 | Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family | Thomas Mann | 4.13 avg rating — 13,979 ratings
25 | The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.29 avg rating — 33,903 ratings
26 | The Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | 3.77 avg rating — 11,786 ratings
27 | The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 3.59 avg rating — 13,520 ratings
28 | Five Children and It (Five Children, #1) | E. Nesbit | 3.87 avg rating — 17,375 ratings
29 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | E.M. Forster | 3.60 avg rating — 8,970 ratings
30 | The Railway Children | E. Nesbit | 3.99 avg rating — 36,145 ratings
31 | Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 3.81 avg rating — 12,171 ratings
32 | The Sea Wolf by Jack London, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories | Jack London | 4.01 avg rating — 18,643 ratings
33 | The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois | 4.23 avg rating — 22,330 ratings
34 | The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Beatrix Potter | 4.16 avg rating — 9,648 ratings
35 | The Wings of the Dove | Henry James | 3.80 avg rating — 13,170 ratings
36 | The Ambassadors | Henry James | 3.66 avg rating — 9,475 ratings
37 | The Tale of Tom Kitten | Beatrix Potter | 4.08 avg rating — 6,822 ratings
38 | Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer | Joseph Conrad | 3.49 avg rating — 14,879 ratings
39 | The Confusions of Young Törless | Robert Musil | 3.76 avg rating — 4,523 ratings
40 | The Immoralist | André Gide | 3.60 avg rating — 7,089 ratings
41 | Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3) | L. Frank Baum | 3.96 avg rating — 16,809 ratings
42 | The Tale of Benjamin Bunny | Beatrix Potter | 4.27 avg rating — 12,019 ratings
43 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber | 3.88 avg rating — 7,140 ratings
44 | The Man of Property | John Galsworthy | 4.02 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
45 | The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers | 3.62 avg rating — 3,755 ratings
46 | The Monkey's Paw | W.W. Jacobs | 3.79 avg rating — 4,739 ratings
47 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 3.61 avg rating — 6,449 ratings
48 | The Late Mattia Pascal | Luigi Pirandello | 3.98 avg rating — 8,217 ratings
49 | The Golden Bowl | Henry James | 3.78 avg rating — 8,994 ratings
50 | The Enchanted Castle | E. Nesbit | 3.85 avg rating — 6,119 ratings
51 | To Build a Fire | Jack London | 3.91 avg rating — 11,999 ratings
52 | Peter Camenzind | Hermann Hesse | 3.80 avg rating — 4,098 ratings
53 | Martin Eden | Jack London | 4.38 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
54 | De Profundis and Other Writings | Oscar Wilde | 4.20 avg rating — 2,200 ratings
55 | The House on the Borderland | William Hope Hodgson | 3.67 avg rating — 3,699 ratings
56 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Kate Douglas Wiggin | 3.84 avg rating — 28,389 ratings
57 | The First Men in the Moon | H.G. Wells | 3.69 avg rating — 9,415 ratings
58 | The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett | 3.80 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
59 | Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw | 3.68 avg rating — 4,247 ratings
60 | The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) | L. Frank Baum | 3.82 avg rating — 14,185 ratings
61 | A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2) | Gene Stratton-Porter | 4.14 avg rating — 15,109 ratings
62 | Up from Slavery | Booker T. Washington | 4.08 avg rating — 16,274 ratings
63 | The Diary of Adam and Eve | Mark Twain | 3.97 avg rating — 9,462 ratings
64 | Green Mansions | William Henry Hudson | 3.75 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
65 | The Machine Stops | E.M. Forster | 4.04 avg rating — 4,805 ratings
66 | Tonio Kröger | Thomas Mann | 3.75 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
67 | The Phoenix and the Carpet (Five Children, #2) | E. Nesbit | 4.06 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
68 | Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | 3.88 avg rating — 3,169 ratings
69 | The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | Sigmund Freud | 3.88 avg rating — 2,865 ratings
70 | The Wonderful Adventures of Nils | Selma Lagerlöf | 4.03 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
71 | Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief | Maurice Leblanc | 3.91 avg rating — 4,006 ratings
72 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | G.K. Chesterton | 3.89 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
73 | The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays | J.M. Synge | 3.65 avg rating — 147 ratings
74 | Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God | Rainer Maria Rilke | 4.45 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
75 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | M.R. James | 4.10 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
76 | Beneath the Wheel | Hermann Hesse | 3.81 avg rating — 9,681 ratings
77 | My Brilliant Career | Miles Franklin | 3.80 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
78 | The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | 3.70 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
79 | Lieutenant Gustl | Arthur Schnitzler | 3.58 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
80 | The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains | Owen Wister | 3.87 avg rating — 5,702 ratings
81 | The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | L. Frank Baum | 3.90 avg rating — 2,412 ratings
82 | Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1) | P.G. Wodehouse | 3.74 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
83 | Ecce Homo | Friedrich Nietzsche | 3.82 avg rating — 6,837 ratings
84 | The Secret Sharer and other stories | Joseph Conrad | 3.69 avg rating — 766 ratings
84 | The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce | 4.13 avg rating — 7,531 ratings
86 | The Magician | W. Somerset Maugham | 3.57 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
86 | Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Lafcadio Hearn | 3.94 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
88 | Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria | Sigmund Freud | 3.40 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
89 | The Road to Oz (Oz, #5) | L. Frank Baum | 3.78 avg rating — 8,610 ratings
90 | Three Lives | Gertrude Stein | 3.17 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
91 | The Dance of Death | August Strindberg | 3.70 avg rating — 290 ratings
91 | Jakob von Gunten | Robert Walser | 4.02 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
93 | Seven Who Were Hanged | Leonid Andreyev | 4.01 avg rating — 657 ratings
94 | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4) | L. Frank Baum | 3.77 avg rating — 9,263 ratings
95 | The Violet Fairy Book | Andrew Lang | 4.15 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
95 | The Book of Tea | Kakuzō Okakura | 3.81 avg rating — 5,990 ratings
97 | Tristan | Thomas Mann | 3.64 avg rating — 842 ratings
98 | Royal Highness | Thomas Mann | 3.65 avg rating — 387 ratings
99 | The Beast in the Jungle | Henry James | 3.66 avg rating — 2,218 ratings
100 | Tono-Bungay | H.G. Wells | 3.45 avg rating — 850 ratings