This list was created by aggregating three different lists (links posted at bottom of page) from Goodreads.com and then averaging the rankings of the books on the three lists. Ties were broken by books’ overall ratings in Dave’s Book Database. If more than one book from a series appeared on the list, the entire series was ranked based on the highest book of the series. Here’s the results:
Books on All 3 Lists:
- Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- George Orwell Animal Farm (1954)
- C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (series, 1950-1956)
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (1937)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)
- J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series: 1997-2007)
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (trilogy: 1954-55)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) (1943)
- Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind (1936)
- William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree (1964)
- John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (1937)
- E.B. White Charlotte’s Web (1952)
- Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)
- George Orwell 1984 (1949)
- Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)
- Lois Lowry The Giver (1994)
- Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
- Paulo Coelho O Alquimista (The Alchemist) (1987)
- Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
- Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game (1968)
- Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series: 1979-2009)
- L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (1908)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden (1987)
- Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale (1986)
- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955)
- Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
- Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
- S.E. Hinton The Outsiders (1968)
- Alice Walker The Color Purple (1982)
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
- Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
- Stephen King The Stand (1978)
- Herman Hesse Siddhartha (1922)
- Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (1957)
- Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
- Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Books on 2 Lists:
- Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl (aka The Diary of Anne Frank) (1947)
- Markus Zusak The Book Thief (2005)
- Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (2008)
- Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847)
- William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (1597)
- Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) / Through the Looking Glass (1871)
- Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
- Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)
- John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Elie Wiesel Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign) (1958)
- Kathryn Stockett The Help (2009)
- Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner (2003)
- Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
- Stephenie Meyer Twilight (2005)
- Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1869)
- Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
- Homer The Odyssey (800 B.C.)
- Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (1963)
- Richard Adams Watership Down (1972)
- Albert Camus The Stranger (L’Etranger) (1942)
- Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
- Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Yann Martel Life of Pi (2001)
- Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes (series of 4 novels and 56 short stories: 1887-1927)
- Frank Herbert Dune (1965)
- Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth (1989)
- Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis (1915)
- Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
- Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (1877)
- Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca (1938)
- George R.R. Martin A Game of Thrones (1996)
- Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818)
- John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
- Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon (1958)
- Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes (1996)
- A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House (9-book series: 1932-1971)
- Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (1615)
Books on 1 List:
- John Green The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
- Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code (2004)
- Veronica Roth Divergent (2011)
- John Steinbeck East of Eden (1952)
- Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)
- Cassandra Clare City of Bones (2008)
- Various writers The Holy Bible: King James Version (1451)
- J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien on Fairy Stories (1947)
- William Shakespeare Hamlet (1603)
- Bram Stoker Dracula (1897)
- William Goldman The Princess Bride (1973)
- Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1966)
- Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief (2005)
- Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones (2002)
- Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat (1957)
- Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
- Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
- Sara Gruen Water for Elephants (2006)
- Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa) (1980)
- Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- Dr. Seuss The Lorax (1971)
- Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
- Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1967)
- Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957)
- Dr. Sess Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1990)
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1861)
- James Joyce Ulysses (1922)
- Mitch Alborn Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
- Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)
- Pearl Buck The Good Earth (1931)
- John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper (2004)
- Diana Gabaldon Outlander (1991)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
- Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club (1989)
- William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- William Shakespeare Macbeth (1623)
- Roald Dahl Matilda (1988)
- Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943)
- Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- John Irving The World According to Garp (1978)
- Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
- Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- Cormac McCarthy The Road (2007)
- Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952)
- Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon (1947)
- Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
- Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1869)
- C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity (1952)
- Richelle Mead Vampire Academy (2007)
- Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (1953)
- Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove (1985)
- Philip Pullman The Golden Compass (1995)
- Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried (1990)
- Anita Diamant The Red Tent (1997)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
- William Styron Sophie’s Choice (1979)
- Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
- Muhammad Qu’ran/Kuran (632 A.D.)
- J.D. Salinger Fanny and Zooey (1961)
- Nicholas Sparks The Notebook (1996)
- Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (1927)
- James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Tales and Poems/Complete Stories and Poems (1849)
- Joseph Smith The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (1830)
- José Saramago & Giovanni Ponteiro Blindness (1995)
- Herman Melville Moby-Dick (1851)
- Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle (1963)
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