Goodreads Top 100

1. Gone with the Wind byMargaret Mitchell 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 297,278 ratings

2. Animal Farm byGeorge Orwell 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 654,612 ratings

3. Wuthering Heights byEmily Brontë (Author) 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 219,301 ratings

4. The Count of Monte Cristo byAlexandre Dumas 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 264,834 ratings

5. Romeo and Juliet byWilliam Shakespeare 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 675,996 ratings

6. To Kill a Mockingbird byHarper Lee 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 981,767 ratings

7. Crime and Punishment byFyodor Dostoyevsky 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 104,878 ratings

8. Lord of the Flies byWilliam Golding 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 626,638 ratings

9. Les Misérables byVictor Hugo 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 222,531 ratings

10. The Grapes of Wrath byJohn Steinbeck 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 159,397 ratings

11. Pride and Prejudice byJane Austen 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 619,137 ratings

12. The Picture of Dorian Gray byOscar Wilde 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 129,822 ratings

13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn byMark Twain 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 538,420 ratings

14. Hamlet byWilliam Shakespeare 3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 153,386 ratings

15. One Hundred Years of Solitude byGabriel Garcí­a Márquez 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 249,123 ratings

16. Dracula byBram Stoker 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 133,725 ratings

17. Of Mice and Men byJohn Steinbeck 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 580,470 ratings

18. Brave New World byAldous Huxley 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 362,008 ratings

19. A Tale of Two Cities byCharles Dickens 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 309,048 ratings

20. Fahrenheit 451 byRay Bradbury 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 345,987 ratings

21. Sense and Sensibility byJane Austen 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 304,731 ratings

22. East of Eden byJohn Steinbeck 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 102,108 ratings

23. Lolita byVladimir Nabokov 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 214,881 ratings

24. Jane Eyre byCharlotte Brontë 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 424,637 ratings

25. The Odyssey byHomer 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 359,319 ratings

26. Night byElie Wiesel 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 181,298 ratings

27. Anna Karenina byLeo Tolstoy 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 89,959 ratings

28. Slaughterhouse-Five byKurt Vonnegut 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 337,265 ratings

29. Catch-22 byJoseph Heller 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 143,638 ratings

30. Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) byFrank Herbert 3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 195,717 ratings

31. Emma byJane Austen 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 127,809 ratings

32. The Lord of the Rings byJ.R.R. Tolkien 4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 150,981 ratings

33. The Bell Jar bySylvia Plath 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 121,069 ratings

34. The Fountainhead byAyn Rand 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 91,672 ratings

35. The Iliad byHomer 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 69,954 ratings

36. Atlas Shrugged byAyn Rand 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 85,436 ratings

37. The Brothers Karamazov byFyodor Dostoyevsky 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 46,105 ratings

38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes byArthur Conan Doyle 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 41,046 ratings

39. War and Peace byLeo Tolstoy 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 42,472 ratings

40. Frankenstein byMary Shelley 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 338,046 ratings

41. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest byKen Kesey 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 120,956 ratings

42. A Clockwork Orange byAnthony Burgess 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 105,566 ratings

43. Great Expectations byCharles Dickens 3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 131,152 ratings

44. Siddhartha byHermann Hesse 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 99,855 ratings

45. Don Quixote byMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 40,143 ratings

46. Rebecca byDaphne du Maurier 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 83,653 ratings

47. Moby-Dick byHerman Melville 3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 210,844 ratings

48. 1984 byGeorge Orwell 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 582,063 ratings

49. Persuasion byJane Austen 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 99,571 ratings

50. On the Road byJack Kerouac 3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 87,355 ratings

51. Macbeth byWilliam Shakespeare 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 136,515 ratings

52. Their Eyes Were Watching God byZora Neale Hurston 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 69,317 ratings

53. The Old Man and the Sea byErnest Hemingway 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 126,922 ratings

54. Complete Stories and Poems byEdgar Allan Poe 4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 49,389 ratings

55. The Scarlet Letter byNathaniel Hawthorne 3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 173,620 ratings

56. The Master and Margarita byMikhail Bulgakov 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 34,569 ratings

57. In Cold Blood byTruman Capote 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 174,303 ratings

58. All Quiet on the Western Front byErich Maria Remarque 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 62,693 ratings

59. Flowers for Algernon byDaniel Keyes 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 83,715 ratings

60. The Stranger byAlbert Camus 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 110,546 ratings

61. The Divine Comedy byDante Alighieri 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 23,157 ratings

62. The Good Earth byPearl S. Buck 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 68,131 ratings

63. The Diary of a Young Girl byAnne Frank 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 581,735 ratings

64. The Metamorphosis byFranz Kafka 3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 89,341 ratings

65. Tess of the D’Urbervilles byThomas Hardy 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 46,742 ratings

66. Heart of Darkness byJoseph Conrad 3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 90,481 ratings

67. The Great Gatsby byF. Scott Fitzgerald 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 737,512 ratings

68. The Godfather byMario Puzo 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 47,495 ratings

69. The Prophet byKhalil Gibran 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 43,925 ratings

70. The Importance of Being Earnest byOscar Wilde 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 52,309 ratings

71. Ulysses byJames Joyce 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 26,076 ratings

72. And Then There Were None byAgatha Christie 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 70,197 ratings

73. The Canterbury Tales byGeoffrey Chaucer 3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 54,002 ratings

74. Madame Bovary byGustave Flaubert 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 45,895 ratings

75. The Three Musketeers byAlexandre Dumas 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 52,219 ratings

76. A Farewell to Arms byErnest Hemingway 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 62,565 ratings

77. A Midsummer Night’s Dream byWilliam Shakespeare 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 103,189 ratings

78. The Crucible byArthur Miller 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 76,916 ratings

79. The Sun Also Rises byErnest Hemingway 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 93,477 ratings

80. Man’s Search for Meaning byViktor E. Frankl 4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 30,365 ratings

81. Cat’s Cradle byKurt Vonnegut 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 77,135 ratings

82. David Copperfield byCharles Dickens 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 38,877 ratings

83. Oliver Twist byCharles Dickens 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 55,526 ratings

84. The Sound and the Fury byWilliam Faulkner 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 47,067 ratings

85. Stranger in a Strange Land byRobert A. Heinlein 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 108,189 ratings

86. The Call of the Wild byJack London 3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 62,101 ratings

87. The Awakening byKate Chopin 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 48,409 ratings

88. Invisible Man byRalph Ellison 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 42,219 ratings

89. King Lear byWilliam Shakespeare 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 47,432 ratings

90. Franny and Zooey byJ.D. Salinger 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 62,975 ratings

91. Leaves of Grass byWalt Whitman 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 24,692 ratings

92. Candide byVoltaire 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 44,291 ratings

93. For Whom the Bell Tolls byErnest Hemingway 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 52,677 ratings

94. Paradise Lost byJohn Milton (Author) 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 29,161 ratings

95. The Phantom of the Opera byGaston Leroux 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 33,084 ratings

96. Walden, or Life in the Woods byHenry David Thoreau 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 31,985 ratings

97. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man byJames Joyce 3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 37,723 ratings

98. The Trial byFranz Kafka 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 33,410 ratings

99. Othello byWilliam Shakespeare 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 76,150 ratings

100. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life byGeorge Eliot 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 25,231 ratings

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