| Title | Author | Abandoned | Rating | Reads | Year |
| The Casual Vacancy | J.K. Rowling | 763 | 3.3 | 288511 | 2012 |
| Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) | Joseph Heller | 685 | 3.98 | 679887 | 1961 |
| American Gods (American Gods, #1) | Neil Gaiman | 663 | 4.11 | 693316 | 2001 |
| A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) | George R.R. Martin | 655 | 4.45 | 1833563 | 1996 |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 608 | 4.37 | 1644846 | 2005 |
| Outlander (Outlander, #1) | Diana Gabaldon | 572 | 4.22 | 744288 | 1991 |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 570 | 3.91 | 627079 | 2013 |
| Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) | E.L. James | 553 | 3.67 | 1728277 | 2011 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 551 | 4.06 | 683951 | 1967 |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 513 | 4.29 | 68592 | 1996 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 513 | 3.82 | 181614 | 2004 |
| Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell #1) | Hilary Mantel | 493 | 3.86 | 142454 | 2009 |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | 465 | 4.04 | 603633 | 2011 |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) | Gregory Maguire | 440 | 3.53 | 555107 | 1995 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson | 430 | 4.13 | 2373001 | 2005 |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 430 | 3.55 | 1370325 | 2006 |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | 414 | 3.76 | 105427 | 2017 |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 411 | 4.33 | 865244 | 2014 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 398 | 4.04 | 609725 | 1877 |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 392 | 3.9 | 1230703 | 2001 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 385 | 3.89 | 612040 | 1955 |
| A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1) | Deborah Harkness | 378 | 4 | 327870 | 2011 |
| The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) | Lev Grossman | 378 | 3.51 | 212338 | 2009 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 374 | 4.01 | 200571 | 2004 |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 369 | 4.06 | 2070700 | 2012 |
| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 365 | 3.92 | 178689 | 2009 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 359 | 4.26 | 2681555 | 1813 |
| Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) | Kate Atkinson | 358 | 3.76 | 186594 | 2013 |
| Moby-Dick, or, the Whale | Herman Melville | 343 | 3.49 | 452575 | 1851 |
| My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1) | Elena Ferrante | 343 | 3.94 | 162490 | 2011 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 337 | 3.85 | 1216179 | 1847 |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 337 | 4.14 | 241963 | 2011 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 337 | 3.63 | 320327 | 1957 |
| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson | 333 | 3.99 | 464267 | 2003 |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 329 | 3.76 | 138253 | 2006 |
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) | Ransom Riggs | 326 | 3.91 | 885492 | 2011 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | 325 | 3.77 | 181513 | 1974 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 323 | 4.18 | 2737965 | 1949 |
| The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) | Margaret Atwood | 318 | 4.1 | 1240897 | 1985 |
| City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) | Cassandra Clare | 318 | 4.11 | 1489377 | 2007 |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 317 | 3.97 | 1476399 | 2003 |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | 316 | 3.91 | 1817858 | 2015 |
| The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) | Patrick Rothfuss | 312 | 4.54 | 634008 | 2007 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 309 | 3.69 | 337182 | 1957 |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | 308 | 4.06 | 280504 | 2012 |
| Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) | Ernest Cline | 305 | 4.27 | 762292 | 2011 |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 303 | 4.36 | 206928 | 2016 |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | 300 | 4.4 | 724510 | 2012 |
| Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Terry Pratchett | 300 | 4.25 | 468203 | 1990 |
| The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) | Ken Follett | 298 | 4.31 | 598080 | 1989 |
| Twilight (Twilight, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 297 | 3.59 | 4552021 | 2005 |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 296 | 3.88 | 216555 | 1980 |
| The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 295 | 4.26 | 407715 | 2001 |
| The Passage (The Passage, #1) | Justin Cronin | 291 | 4.04 | 174997 | 2010 |
| Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff | 286 | 3.57 | 104877 | 2015 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 280 | 3.73 | 102676 | 1922 |
| The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton | 278 | 3.72 | 58213 | 2013 |
| The Hobbit, or There and Back Again | J.R.R. Tolkien | 277 | 4.27 | 2610391 | 1937 |
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | 274 | 4.3 | 158782 | 2015 |
| The Host (The Host, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 264 | 3.84 | 843761 | 2008 |
| The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) | Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym) | 262 | 3.86 | 440190 | 2013 |
| Dune (Dune, #1) | Frank Herbert | 261 | 4.22 | 648580 | 1965 |
| The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) | Jonas Jonasson | 260 | 3.83 | 190253 | 2009 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 260 | 3.91 | 373855 | 1985 |
| Red Rising (Red Rising, #1) | Pierce Brown | 260 | 4.27 | 207611 | 2014 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) | Douglas Adams | 259 | 4.22 | 1286630 | 1979 |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | 258 | 4.01 | 402190 | 2006 |
| Divergent (Divergent, #1) | Veronica Roth | 254 | 4.2 | 2685029 | 2011 |
| Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1) | Kevin Kwan | 252 | 3.84 | 271558 | 2013 |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | 251 | 4.36 | 473788 | 2012 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 251 | 3.8 | 2504231 | 1951 |
| The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) | Scott Lynch | 248 | 4.3 | 190904 | 2006 |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 247 | 4.1 | 112613 | 2000 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 246 | 4.07 | 855208 | 1890 |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 243 | 3.86 | 1845610 | 1988 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | 242 | 3.9 | 216955 | 2007 |
| The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing | Marie Kondō | 239 | 3.83 | 236410 | 2011 |
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 239 | 3.78 | 231501 | 2005 |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life | Mark Manson | 236 | 3.97 | 358149 | 2016 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 236 | 4.36 | 2167915 | 1954 |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 234 | 3.8 | 1877644 | 2002 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 233 | 3.87 | 189310 | 1615 |
| Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) | William Gibson | 229 | 3.89 | 243439 | 1984 |
| Allegiant (Divergent, #3) | Veronica Roth | 227 | 3.63 | 761365 | 2013 |
| The Stand | Stephen King | 227 | 4.34 | 564024 | 1978 |
| The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1) | James Dashner | 226 | 4.02 | 929055 | 2009 |
| Insurgent (Divergent, #2) | Veronica Roth | 225 | 4.04 | 1070027 | 2012 |
| The Shack | William Paul Young | 222 | 3.76 | 499916 | 2007 |
| Neverwhere (London Below, #1) | Neil Gaiman | 221 | 4.17 | 392256 | 1996 |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | 220 | 4.44 | 319228 | 2011 |
| The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin | 220 | 3.61 | 129812 | 2009 |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 220 | 3.98 | 363155 | 2005 |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 218 | 4.09 | 261849 | 1992 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 217 | 3.91 | 3406215 | 1925 |
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | 216 | 4.29 | 323433 | 2009 |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed | 216 | 4 | 550175 | 2012 |
| The Little Paris Bookshop | Nina George | 215 | 3.5 | 70704 | 2013 |
| Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) | Maggie Stiefvater | 214 | 3.77 | 409905 | 2009 |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | 213 | 3.66 | 164748 | 2010 |
| Less | Andrew Sean Greer | 212 | 3.71 | 89875 | 2017 |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 212 | 4.12 | 273751 | 1980 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | 208 | 4.03 | 254954 | 1997 |
| A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) | George R.R. Martin | 207 | 4.41 | 731264 | 1998 |
| Matched (Matched, #1) | Ally Condie | 206 | 3.67 | 610921 | 2010 |
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1) | Seth Grahame-Smith | 206 | 3.29 | 122788 | 2009 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 206 | 4 | 559028 | 2002 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 204 | 3.9 | 412675 | 2001 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 203 | 4.21 | 559146 | 1866 |
| An Abundance of Katherines | John Green | 203 | 3.59 | 413796 | 2006 |
| It | Stephen King | 202 | 4.24 | 709216 | 1986 |
| Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir | Jenny Lawson | 201 | 3.9 | 148750 | 2012 |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 200 | 4.16 | 627670 | 1862 |
| Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things | Jenny Lawson | 200 | 3.92 | 108496 | 2015 |
| Winter's Tale | Mark Helprin | 200 | 3.5 | 25496 | 1983 |
| The Bone Clocks | David Mitchell | 200 | 3.83 | 78521 | 2014 |
| Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) | Christopher Paolini | 200 | 3.89 | 1327770 | 2002 |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) | Marlon James | 199 | 3.49 | 9751 | 2019 |
| The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 199 | 3.75 | 60503 | 2009 |
| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 199 | 4.27 | 145400 | 2003 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 199 | 3.96 | 660447 | 2006 |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | 198 | 3.68 | 161271 | 2000 |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | 197 | 4.02 | 239828 | 2016 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 197 | 4.23 | 274941 | 1989 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 196 | 3.82 | 420786 | 2005 |
| 11/22/63 | Stephen King | 196 | 4.31 | 383337 | 2011 |
| Uglies (Uglies, #1) | Scott Westerfeld | 196 | 3.86 | 527785 | 2005 |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 196 | 3.98 | 98145 | 1981 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 195 | 3.98 | 1308967 | 1932 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 195 | 3.68 | 2087326 | 1954 |
| The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | 194 | 3.49 | 62321 | 2015 |
| Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | 193 | 3.99 | 82796 | 2015 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 192 | 4.06 | 1500422 | 1869 |
| Yes Please | Amy Poehler | 192 | 3.82 | 384943 | 2014 |
| A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | 192 | 3.87 | 24750 | 2014 |
| Swamplandia! | Karen Russell | 191 | 3.23 | 48237 | 2011 |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 191 | 4.21 | 262877 | 2003 |
| The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman | 191 | 3.46 | 68687 | 2007 |
| My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry | Fredrik Backman | 189 | 4.05 | 129414 | 2013 |
| The Sellout | Paul Beatty | 189 | 3.77 | 47250 | 2015 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 189 | 4.07 | 1048058 | 1969 |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 189 | 4.3 | 211625 | 1967 |
| Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) | Kami Garcia | 188 | 3.76 | 511799 | 2009 |
| Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West | Cormac McCarthy | 188 | 4.17 | 98563 | 1985 |
| Gilead (Gilead, #1) | Marilynne Robinson | 187 | 3.85 | 72951 | 2004 |
| The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) | Rick Yancey | 186 | 4.06 | 358192 | 2013 |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 186 | 3.93 | 221701 | 1997 |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer | 186 | 4.16 | 553749 | 2008 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 186 | 3.79 | 202091 | 1925 |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | 186 | 4.08 | 1279918 | 2006 |
| Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) | Tomi Adeyemi | 185 | 4.16 | 104406 | 2018 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 185 | 3.83 | 762295 | 1859 |
| Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird, #2) | Harper Lee | 185 | 3.31 | 211981 | 2015 |
| The Power | Naomi Alderman | 183 | 3.84 | 124753 | 2016 |
| Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Michael Wolff | 182 | 3.44 | 63442 | 2018 |
| The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) | Stephen King | 182 | 3.96 | 474856 | 1982 |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | 182 | 4.25 | 93482 | 1999 |
| The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | 181 | 3.44 | 108109 | 2011 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 180 | 3.99 | 551004 | 1962 |
| Milkman | Anna Burns | 180 | 3.6 | 27350 | 2018 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 180 | 4.32 | 220331 | 1879 |
| The Girls | Emma Cline | 180 | 3.47 | 148948 | 2016 |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 180 | 4.03 | 268667 | 2014 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 180 | 3.79 | 148601 | 2001 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 179 | 4.11 | 242998 | 1867 |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Azar Nafisi | 179 | 3.6 | 110481 | 2003 |
| The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | 178 | 4.57 | 564256 | 2015 |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 178 | 4.06 | 526756 | 2010 |
| Room | Emma Donoghue | 178 | 4.05 | 659937 | 2010 |
| Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) | Ann Leckie | 177 | 3.98 | 70387 | 2013 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 177 | 4.24 | 697240 | 1844 |
| Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) | Richard Adams | 177 | 4.05 | 405352 | 1972 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 177 | 4.18 | 176085 | 2000 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 177 | 4.29 | 2230734 | 2003 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 176 | 3.99 | 848083 | 1897 |
| Bossypants | Tina Fey | 176 | 3.95 | 770746 | 2011 |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) | Patrick Ness | 176 | 3.98 | 141055 | 2008 |
| Into the Water | Paula Hawkins | 175 | 3.56 | 227900 | 2017 |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 175 | 4.03 | 220106 | 1992 |
| Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | 174 | 4.31 | 494692 | 2017 |
| Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) | Robin Sloan | 174 | 3.75 | 162766 | 2012 |
| Code Name Verity | Elizabeth E. Wein | 174 | 4.05 | 86407 | 2012 |
| The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) | N.K. Jemisin | 173 | 4.31 | 103368 | 2015 |
| The Interestings | Meg Wolitzer | 173 | 3.57 | 100154 | 2013 |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy | 172 | 3.47 | 23774 | 2017 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 172 | 3.98 | 1489944 | 1953 |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) | Madeleine L'Engle | 172 | 4 | 985024 | 1962 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 171 | 3.77 | 603324 | 1861 |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 170 | 4.23 | 3161272 | 2012 |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 170 | 4.17 | 197425 | 1994 |
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | 169 | 4 | 437924 | 2013 |
| The Paying Guests | Sarah Waters | 169 | 3.41 | 65757 | 2014 |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 168 | 4 | 60435 | 2015 |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 168 | 3.76 | 112367 | 2000 |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson | 168 | 3.65 | 313556 | 2006 |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | 167 | 3.9 | 212598 | 2006 |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 167 | 3.92 | 260849 | 1961 |
| Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | J.D. Vance | 166 | 3.93 | 253431 | 2016 |
| H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | 166 | 3.73 | 51919 | 2014 |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | 166 | 4.2 | 1145589 | 1999 |
| The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) | Philip Pullman | 166 | 3.97 | 1183087 | 1995 |
| Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | 165 | 3.92 | 178184 | 1991 |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 165 | 3.62 | 152799 | 1962 |
| The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) | Liu Cixin | 165 | 4.06 | 109992 | 2008 |
| The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) | Robert Jordan | 165 | 4.19 | 346981 | 1990 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 164 | 3.79 | 1061223 | 1818 |
| Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | 164 | 4.08 | 770299 | 2012 |
| Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) | Margaret Atwood | 164 | 4.01 | 205828 | 2003 |
| The Silmarillion (Middle-Earth Universe) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 163 | 3.92 | 196913 | 1977 |
| Circe | Madeline Miller | 162 | 4.28 | 202042 | 2018 |
| Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) | Victoria Aveyard | 161 | 4.06 | 473630 | 2015 |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green | 161 | 4.04 | 1015855 | 2005 |
| The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 160 | 4.12 | 180867 | 1982 |
| The Nest | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | 160 | 3.42 | 143507 | 2016 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 160 | 4.12 | 1490329 | 1847 |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 160 | 3.9 | 158744 | 2002 |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | 159 | 3.71 | 59509 | 2007 |
| A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) | V.E. Schwab (pseudonym) | 159 | 4.09 | 159146 | 2015 |
| Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | 157 | 4.03 | 2124319 | 2010 |
| The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman | 157 | 4.02 | 366407 | 2012 |
| Delirium (Delirium, #1) | Lauren Oliver | 157 | 3.98 | 399065 | 2011 |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | 157 | 4.07 | 144466 | 2003 |
| The Circle | Dave Eggers | 156 | 3.43 | 171614 | 2013 |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 156 | 4.3 | 214901 | 2013 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) | Harper Lee | 155 | 4.27 | 4089654 | 1960 |
| Beartown (Beartown, #1) | Fredrik Backman | 154 | 4.26 | 171868 | 2016 |
| The Tiger's Wife | Téa Obreht | 154 | 3.39 | 83278 | 2011 |
| Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) | China Miéville | 154 | 3.97 | 54608 | 2000 |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 154 | 3.82 | 217500 | 1991 |
| Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | 153 | 3.97 | 61554 | 2016 |
| John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) | David Wong | 153 | 3.9 | 56586 | 2007 |
| The Paris Wife | Paula McLain | 153 | 3.81 | 245516 | 2011 |
| Blindness | José Saramago | 153 | 4.11 | 173038 | 1995 |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change | Stephen R. Covey | 152 | 4.1 | 444392 | 1989 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 151 | 4.1 | 304440 | 1984 |
| In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Erik Larson | 151 | 3.83 | 146294 | 2011 |
| The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) | M.R. Carey | 150 | 3.94 | 173784 | 2014 |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 150 | 3.79 | 142522 | 1854 |
| The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | 149 | 3.92 | 72453 | 2018 |
| A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) | George R.R. Martin | 149 | 4.33 | 515710 | 2011 |
| The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) | Maggie Stiefvater | 148 | 4.06 | 230751 | 2012 |
| Super Sad True Love Story | Gary Shteyngart | 148 | 3.45 | 36982 | 2010 |
| The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) | Alan Bradley | 148 | 3.81 | 131489 | 2009 |
| Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be | Rachel Hollis | 147 | 3.76 | 127801 | 2018 |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 146 | 4.47 | 1944196 | 2009 |
| Modern Romance | Aziz Ansari | 146 | 3.83 | 151819 | 2015 |
| The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) | Terry Pratchett | 146 | 3.99 | 285405 | 1983 |
| Possession | A.S. Byatt | 146 | 3.89 | 66741 | 1990 |
| In the Unlikely Event | Judy Blume | 145 | 3.52 | 59153 | 2015 |
| Uprooted | Naomi Novik | 145 | 4.09 | 137993 | 2015 |
| Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) | Laini Taylor | 145 | 4.03 | 284769 | 2011 |
| Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) | Anne Rice | 145 | 3.99 | 452210 | 1976 |
| Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) | Steven Erikson | 145 | 3.88 | 81558 | 1999 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4) | Ursula K. Le Guin | 144 | 4.06 | 105020 | 1969 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 144 | 3.42 | 378176 | 1902 |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Maria Semple | 144 | 3.9 | 421772 | 2012 |
| The Witches: Salem, 1692 | Stacy Schiff | 143 | 3.17 | 14500 | 2015 |
| Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) | Sarah J. Maas | 143 | 4.22 | 504499 | 2012 |
| The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson | 143 | 4.07 | 80766 | 2012 |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 142 | 3.77 | 118090 | 1927 |
| Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) | Cornelia Funke | 142 | 3.88 | 340049 | 2003 |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 142 | 3.93 | 226781 | 2001 |
| Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter | 141 | 3.68 | 150313 | 2012 |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 141 | 3.96 | 127109 | 1871 |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 140 | 3.95 | 128708 | 2000 |
| 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan B. Peterson | 139 | 3.96 | 66038 | 2018 |
| Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) | Neal Stephenson | 139 | 3.93 | 34306 | 2003 |
| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | 139 | 4 | 75951 | 2013 |
| Under the Dome | Stephen King | 139 | 3.9 | 241069 | 2009 |
| Truly Madly Guilty | Liane Moriarty | 138 | 3.57 | 208317 | 2016 |
| The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) | Suzanne Collins | 138 | 4.33 | 5879809 | 2008 |
| Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 138 | 3.75 | 144371 | 2010 |
| Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | 138 | 4.25 | 143327 | 2002 |
| The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) | Jasper Fforde | 138 | 3.91 | 108078 | 2001 |
| Artemis | Andy Weir | 137 | 3.67 | 144306 | 2017 |
| The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North | 137 | 4.04 | 57056 | 2014 |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | 137 | 4.13 | 858227 | 2011 |
| Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4) | Dan Brown | 136 | 3.84 | 431670 | 2013 |
| Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) | Kristin Cashore | 136 | 4.09 | 357328 | 2008 |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 136 | 4.01 | 33374 | 1973 |
| The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | 135 | 3.79 | 55813 | 2009 |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 134 | 3.71 | 50340 | 1988 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 134 | 3.87 | 1095406 | 2003 |
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| How to Stop Time | Matt Haig | 54 | 3.85 | 54137 | 2017 |
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| Love Letters to the Dead | Ava Dellaira | 46 | 3.81 | 58258 | 2014 |
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| Someday, Someday, Maybe | Lauren Graham | 46 | 3.51 | 45167 | 2013 |
| Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker | Jennifer Chiaverini | 46 | 3.46 | 22861 | 2013 |
| The Twelve Tribes of Hattie | Ayana Mathis | 46 | 3.48 | 35087 | 2012 |
| City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) | Cassandra Clare | 46 | 4.28 | 387013 | 2012 |
| Arcadia | Lauren Groff | 46 | 3.67 | 19665 | 2012 |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 46 | 3.84 | 128708 | 1959 |
| The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3) | James Dashner | 46 | 3.77 | 309285 | 2011 |
| The Pale King | David Foster Wallace | 46 | 3.95 | 14279 | 2011 |
| Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 46 | 3.92 | 74944 | 1938 |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 46 | 4.14 | 192181 | 1949 |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 46 | 3.97 | 621559 | 1942 |
| The Gathering | Anne Enright | 46 | 3.07 | 18621 | 2007 |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Tom Robbins | 46 | 3.76 | 47839 | 1976 |
| Bitten (Otherworld, #1) | Kelley Armstrong | 46 | 4.05 | 86242 | 2001 |
| Ishmael | Daniel Quinn | 46 | 3.99 | 75460 | 1992 |
| The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 46 | 4.53 | 613532 | 1955 |
| Autobiography of a Yogi | Paramahansa Yogananda | 45 | 4.23 | 41161 | 1946 |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 45 | 3.99 | 158006 | 1831 |
| Fleishman Is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 45 | 3.77 | 18863 | 2019 |
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| The Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware | 45 | 3.81 | 78328 | 2018 |
| Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold | Stephen Fry | 45 | 4.24 | 27180 | 2017 |
| Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone | Brené Brown | 45 | 4.16 | 48447 | 2017 |
| The Leavers | Lisa Ko | 45 | 3.87 | 28930 | 2017 |
| The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis | 45 | 3.99 | 38268 | 2016 |
| After Alice | Gregory Maguire | 45 | 2.79 | 9700 | 2015 |
| The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) | Jim Butcher | 45 | 4.18 | 34473 | 2015 |
| The Book of Speculation | Erika Swyler | 45 | 3.6 | 28622 | 2015 |
| The Cat's Table | Michael Ondaatje | 45 | 3.6 | 23267 | 2011 |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | 45 | 4.32 | 264510 | 1952 |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 45 | 3.68 | 63129 | 1924 |
| Time and Again (Time, #1) | Jack Finney | 45 | 3.96 | 17575 | 1970 |
| Nexus (Nexus, #1) | Ramez Naam | 45 | 4.05 | 16172 | 2012 |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult | 45 | 4.28 | 156474 | 2013 |
| Wallbanger (Cocktail, #1) | Alice Clayton | 45 | 4.07 | 162270 | 2012 |
| Sacré Bleu | Christopher Moore | 45 | 3.78 | 29088 | 2012 |
| Caleb's Crossing | Geraldine Brooks | 45 | 3.82 | 57376 | 2011 |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | 45 | 4.18 | 50758 | 1962 |
| Moloka'i (Moloka'i #1) | Alan Brennert | 45 | 4.17 | 98540 | 2003 |
| Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer | 45 | 4.2 | 59443 | 2009 |
| Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) | Amitav Ghosh | 45 | 3.95 | 21728 | 2008 |
| Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders | Neil Gaiman | 45 | 4 | 54225 | 2006 |
| The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) | James Fenimore Cooper | 45 | 3.7 | 82798 | 1826 |
| The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro | 45 | 3.53 | 9412 | 1995 |
| An Instance of the Fingerpost | Iain Pears | 45 | 3.94 | 20661 | 1997 |
| Cell | Stephen King | 45 | 3.65 | 179893 | 2006 |
| Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 45 | 3.91 | 73428 | 1961 |
| The Waves | Virginia Woolf | 45 | 4.14 | 24769 | 1931 |
| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | 45 | 4.04 | 42734 | 2005 |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 45 | 3.96 | 36628 | 1959 |
| When You Are Engulfed in Flames | David Sedaris | 45 | 4.06 | 174193 | 2008 |
| The Emperor's Children | Claire Messud | 45 | 2.95 | 19168 | 2006 |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 44 | 4.51 | 160510 | 1927 |
| I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) | Isaac Asimov | 44 | 4.19 | 251838 | 1950 |
| An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, #1) | Hank Green | 44 | 4.03 | 43657 | 2018 |
| How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence | Michael Pollan | 44 | 4.28 | 25564 | 2018 |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou | 44 | 4.45 | 111733 | 2018 |
| Jane, Unlimited | Kristin Cashore | 44 | 3.36 | 7778 | 2017 |
| The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill | 44 | 4.18 | 38098 | 2016 |
| The Sun Is Also a Star | Nicola Yoon | 44 | 4.09 | 140780 | 2016 |
| Imagine Me Gone | Adam Haslett | 44 | 3.69 | 14031 | 2016 |
| The Japanese Lover | Isabel Allende | 44 | 3.81 | 53420 | 2015 |
| Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter | 44 | 3.99 | 144030 | 2015 |
| Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1) | Amy Stewart | 44 | 3.76 | 23766 | 2015 |
| Grey (Fifty Shades as Told by Christian, #1) | E.L. James | 44 | 3.78 | 131178 | 2015 |
| Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | 44 | 4.06 | 81130 | 2004 |
| The Heir (The Selection, #4) | Kiera Cass | 44 | 3.81 | 177339 | 2015 |
| The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1) | Katherine Addison | 44 | 4.04 | 21412 | 2014 |
| How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking | Jordan Ellenberg | 44 | 3.96 | 11875 | 2014 |
| Three Wishes | Liane Moriarty | 44 | 3.78 | 93496 | 2003 |
| On Such a Full Sea | Chang-rae Lee | 44 | 3.48 | 9771 | 2014 |
| I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb | 44 | 4.18 | 279222 | 1998 |
| The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself | Michael A. Singer | 44 | 4.25 | 36670 | 2007 |
| Seating Arrangements | Maggie Shipstead | 44 | 3.03 | 17276 | 2012 |
| The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker | 44 | 3.65 | 80660 | 2012 |
| The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1) | Michelle Hodkin | 44 | 4.07 | 145323 | 2011 |
| The Flame Alphabet | Ben Marcus | 44 | 2.88 | 4837 | 2012 |
| Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1) | Kendare Blake | 44 | 3.94 | 89887 | 2011 |
| The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1) | Rick Riordan | 44 | 4.35 | 565459 | 2010 |
| Digital Fortress | Dan Brown | 44 | 3.64 | 526132 | 1998 |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 44 | 3.95 | 77644 | 1905 |
| The House at Riverton | Kate Morton | 44 | 3.95 | 94384 | 2006 |
| The Republic | Plato | 44 | 3.93 | 150648 | -380 |
| The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) | Lemony Snicket | 44 | 3.94 | 359549 | 1999 |
| Pandora's Star | Peter F. Hamilton | 44 | 4.24 | 39046 | 2004 |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Pascal Mercier | 44 | 3.72 | 15588 | 2004 |
| Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1) | Kate Atkinson | 44 | 3.83 | 75317 | 2004 |
| We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 44 | 3.94 | 60928 | 1921 |
| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | 44 | 4.08 | 96900 | 2008 |
| Specials (Uglies, #3) | Scott Westerfeld | 44 | 3.77 | 161871 | 2006 |
| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | 44 | 4.25 | 62674 | 1984 |
| World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) | Ken Follett | 44 | 4.26 | 179691 | 2007 |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 44 | 4.15 | 37962 | 1962 |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 44 | 4.23 | 297091 | 1977 |
| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | 44 | 4 | 71590 | 2001 |
| One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) | Janet Evanovich | 44 | 4.04 | 458950 | 1994 |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 44 | 3.93 | 120646 | 1998 |
| The Post-Birthday World | Lionel Shriver | 44 | 3.54 | 12795 | 2007 |
| One Day in December | Josie Silver | 43 | 4 | 92354 | 2018 |
| Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | 43 | 3.98 | 73840 | 1994 |
| Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | 43 | 3.59 | 9127 | 2017 |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 43 | 4.32 | 121543 | 2017 |
| Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) | Marissa Meyer | 43 | 4.29 | 277461 | 2013 |
| Pure (Pure, #1) | Julianna Baggott | 43 | 3.74 | 22857 | 2012 |
| Aftermath (Star Wars: Aftermath, #1) | Chuck Wendig | 43 | 3.21 | 23323 | 2015 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) | J.K. Rowling | 43 | 4.41 | 2410780 | 1998 |
| Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War | Karen Abbott | 43 | 3.75 | 10820 | 2014 |
| Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman | 43 | 4.14 | 17743 | 2015 |
| How to Build a Girl | Caitlin Moran | 43 | 3.71 | 27646 | 2014 |
| Afterworlds (Afterworlds #1) | Scott Westerfeld | 43 | 3.73 | 18413 | 2014 |
| Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Greg McKeown | 43 | 4.03 | 40543 | 2011 |
| Since You've Been Gone | Morgan Matson | 43 | 4.14 | 86644 | 2014 |
| The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1) | Marie Rutkoski | 43 | 4 | 85270 | 2014 |
| The Quick | Lauren Owen | 43 | 3.24 | 8152 | 2014 |
| Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened | Allie Brosh | 43 | 4.18 | 157306 | 2013 |