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Top 100 Best Books on Goodreads

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Katniss beat Austen, and the comments section has been on fire since 2008. Ranked by votes on Goodreads’ Best Books Ever list — the people’s ranking, boxed sets, duplicate editions and all. For series, be specific with the title (e.g. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” not just “Harry Potter”).

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

Sources

Outbound sources help you verify the ranking. The published order is Centumth’s.

The full Top 100

  1. #1The Hunger Games
  2. #2Pride and Prejudice
  3. #3To Kill a Mockingbird
  4. #4Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  5. #5The Book Thief
  6. #6Twilight
  7. #7Animal Farm
  8. #8The Lord of the Rings
  9. #9The Chronicles of Narnia
  10. #10The Fault in Our Stars
  11. #11The Picture of Dorian Gray
  12. #12The Lightning Thief
  13. #13Wuthering Heights
  14. #14The Giving Tree
  15. #15Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  16. #16The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  17. #17The Little Prince
  18. #18Gone with the Wind
  19. #19Jane Eyre
  20. #20The Great Gatsby
  21. #21Crime and Punishment
  22. #22The Da Vinci Code
  23. #23Alice in Wonderland
  24. #24Divergent
  25. #25Les Misérables
  26. #26Anne of Green Gables
  27. #27Memoirs of a Geisha
  28. #28The Alchemist
  29. #29Lord of the Flies
  30. #30Romeo and Juliet
  31. #31Brave New World
  32. #32The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  33. #331984
  34. #34City of Bones
  35. #35Fahrenheit 451
  36. #36Dracula
  37. #37The Help
  38. #38Charlotte's Web
  39. #39Of Mice and Men
  40. #40Little Women
  41. #41The Catcher in the Rye
  42. #42Ender's Game
  43. #43The Outsiders
  44. #44One Hundred Years of Solitude
  45. #45A Thousand Splendid Suns
  46. #46The Secret Garden
  47. #47A Game of Thrones
  48. #48The Princess Bride
  49. #49Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  50. #50The Time Traveler's Wife
  51. #51Frankenstein
  52. #52The Odyssey
  53. #53The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  54. #54The Handmaid's Tale
  55. #55The Giver
  56. #56The Kite Runner
  57. #57Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  58. #58A Wrinkle in Time
  59. #59Dune
  60. #60Where the Wild Things Are
  61. #61Green Eggs and Ham
  62. #62The Lovely Bones
  63. #63The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  64. #64Life of Pi
  65. #65Lolita
  66. #66A Tale of Two Cities
  67. #67Slaughterhouse-Five
  68. #68The Bell Jar
  69. #69Matilda
  70. #70Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  71. #71Water for Elephants
  72. #72The Stand
  73. #73Catch-22
  74. #74The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  75. #75A Clockwork Orange
  76. #76The Pillars of the Earth
  77. #77Rebecca
  78. #78Watership Down
  79. #79The Color Purple
  80. #80Great Expectations
  81. #81The Fellowship of the Ring
  82. #82Outlander
  83. #83Anna Karenina
  84. #84The Elephant Tree
  85. #85One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  86. #86The Brothers Karamazov
  87. #87My Sister's Keeper
  88. #88To Kill a Mockingbird
  89. #89The Zombie Room
  90. #90A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  91. #91The Road
  92. #92Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  93. #93Gone Girl
  94. #94The Golden Compass
  95. #95And Then There Were None
  96. #96Siddhartha
  97. #97Vampire Academy
  98. #98Don Quixote
  99. #99The Old Man and the Sea
  100. #100Angela's Ashes

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