Amazon: Top 100 Books

First posted 6/25/2020.

Amazon: Top 100 Books

This list was created by aggregating six different Amazon lists (see details at bottom of page). F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925) Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813) Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) George Orwell 1984 (1949) J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (trilogy: 1954-55) J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (trilogy: 2008-2010) Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953) John Green The Fault in Our Stars (2012) George R.R. Martin A Game of Thrones (1996) Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (2012) Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival (2010) Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954) J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) (1997) Markus Zusak The Book Thief (2005) Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961) Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955) Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible (1998) Cormac McCarthy The Road (2007) Veronica Roth Divergent (2011) R.J. Palacio Wonder (2012) Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train (2015) E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey (trilogy: 2011-2012) Liane Moriarty The Husband’s Secret (2013) Kathyrn Stockett The Help (2009) Todd Burpo & Lynn Vincent Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (2010) Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899) Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (1615) Homer The Odyssey (800 B.C.) Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief (2005) Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847) Lois Lowry The Giver (1994) Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926) Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957) Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818) Richard Adams Watership Down (1972) Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952) J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (1937) Chris McDougall Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2009) Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone (2009) Brené Brown Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2012) Frank Herbert Dune (1965) Kate Atkinson Life After Life (2013) John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) Erik Larson The Devil in the White City (2003) Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) Stephen King The Shining (1977) Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment (1866) Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1869) Neil Gaiman American Gods (2001) Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl (aka The Diary of Anne Frank) (1947) Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1861) Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1966) Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981) Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time (1988) Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) Donna Tartt The Secret History (1992) Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985) C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (series: 1950-1956) George Orwell Animal Farm (1945) Stephenie Meyer Twilight (2005) John Steinbeck The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976) Andy Weir The Martian (2011) Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) Rick Yancey The First Book of the 5th Wave (2013) James Joyce Ulysses (1922) Herman Melville Moby-Dick (1851) Homer The Iliad (800 B.C.) Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (1857) Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532) John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (1937) Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932) C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (1942) Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (1843) Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (1957) Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass (2013) J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) John Green Looking for Alaska (2005) Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? (1998) Tom Rath Strengths Finder 2.0 (2007) Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Kristin Hannah The Nightingale (2015) Albert Camus The Stranger (L’Etranger) (1942) James Dashner The Maze Runner (2009) Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850) Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943) Resources and Related Links: Amazon Books editors’ 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime The link above goes directly to Amazon, but can also be found at thegreatestbooks.org. Amazon UK (1/15/2018). “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime” Amazon UK editors picked 100 essential books – mostly fiction, but some non-fiction. Includes children’s books. A slightly different version of the list was posted at thegreatestbooks.org. Amazon.com “Classic Literature and Fiction” Amazon “Most Reviewed” This is a top 100 ranked list on GoodReads of books on Amazon with at least 3000 reviews. Amazon “Must Read Books of All Time” A Kindle edition on Amazon of 11 classics. Amazon “Top 20 Best-selling Books of All Time”

Goodreads: Top 150+ Books

First posted 6/24/2020.

Goodreads: Top 150+ Books

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) Resources and Related Links: GoodReads.com (2008). “Best Books Ever” GoodReads.com (2008). “Best Books of the 20th Century” GoodReads.com (2008). “Books That Everyone Should Read Once”

Modern Library: 100 Best Novels

First posted 6/9/2020.

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Modern Library: 100 Best Novels

Modern Library assembled top 100 lists of the best novels and non-fiction books based on online votes. The poll for the novels closed on October 20, 1998 with 217,520 votes cast. Here are the results: James Joyce Ulysses (1922) F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925) James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955) Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932) William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1929) Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961) Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon (1940) D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers (1913) John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano (1947) Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh (1903) George Orwell 1984 (1949) Robert Graves I, Claudius (1934) Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (1927) Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy (1925) Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952) Richard Wright Native Son (1940) Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King (1959) John O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1934) John Dos Passos U.S.A. (Trilogy) (1936) Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio (1919) E.M. Forster A Passage to India (1924) Henry James The Wings of the Dove (1902) Henry James The Ambassadors (1903) F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night (1934) James T. Farrell The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1935) Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier (1915) George Orwell Animal Farm (1954) Henry James The Golden Bowl (1904) Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie (1900) Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust (1934) William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (1930) Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men (1946) Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928) E.M. Forster Howards End (1910) James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter (1948) William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954) James Dickey Deliverance (1970) Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time (Series) (1975) Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point (1928) Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926) Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent (1926) Joseph Conrad Nostromo (1904) D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow (1915) D.H. Lawrence Women in Love (1920) Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934) Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948) Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire (1962) William Faulkner Light in August (1932) Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957) Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (1929) Ford Madox Ford Parade’s End (1928) Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920) Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson (1911) Walker Percy The Moviegoer (1961) Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) James Jones From Here to Eternity (1951) John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicles (1958) J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962) W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage (1915) Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899) Sinclair Lewis Main Street (1920) Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (1905) Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet (1960) Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) Nathanael West The Day of the Locust (1939) Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929) Evelyn Waugh Scoop (1938) Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1960) James Joyce Finnegan’s Wake (1941) Rudyard Kipling Kim (1901) E.M. Forster A Room with a View (1908) Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (1945) Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose (1971) V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River (1979) Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart (1938) Joseph Conrad Lord Jim (1900) E.L. Doctorow Ragtime (1975) Arnold Bennett The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) Jack London The Call of the Wild (1903) Henry Green Loving (1945) Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981) Erskine Caldwell Tobacco Road (1932) William Kennedy Ironweed (1983) John Fowles The Magus (1965) Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Iris Murdoch Under the Net (1954) William Styron Sophie’s Choice (1979) Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky (1949) James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) J.P. Donleavy The Ginger Man (1955) Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons (1919) Resources and Related Links: Modern Library “100 Best Novels” Modern Library “Top 100” (how list was compiled)