Skip to main content

SHOULD Read Books!

Description: Notable books that I have not yet read, but should.

1 2 3 4

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,524 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

5 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

2

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,801 members

638 reviews

4

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,995 members

724 reviews

4.2

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

4

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,332 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, danananas

5

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,471 members

480 reviews

4.2

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Metamorphosis

12,611 members

222 reviews

3.9

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, aspirit, gravir

7

by Charlotte Brontë

59,404 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

8

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

42,891 members

1,124 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Sense and Sensibility

38,396 members

530 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

10

American Gods {original}

33,719 members

933 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by Sylvia Plath

28,290 members

505 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Truman Capote

23,884 members

467 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

13

22,667 members

360 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,489 members

477 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,862 members

616 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,546 members

469 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

17

The Secret History

20,544 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,883 members

342 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Albert Camus

18,607 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

20

15,061 members

804 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Emma Donoghue

14,403 members

980 reviews

4

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

22

by Stephen King

13,746 members

769 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by José Saramago

13,112 members

391 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

24

by Cormac McCarthy

11,683 members

274 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy, gravir

25

by Raymond Chandler

10,349 members

285 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

26

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,079 members

181 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,250 members

114 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

28

by George Eliot

4,240 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,468 members

496 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

30

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

36,064 members

942 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

31

by Kathryn Stockett

30,736 members

1,494 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

32

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

30,491 members

899 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

33

by Stephen King

23,317 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Toni Morrison

23,030 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Northanger Abbey

21,798 members

420 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

20,876 members

753 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

20,206 members

466 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

20,004 members

238 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

39

Looking for Alaska

19,278 members

753 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

18,972 members

888 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

41

by George Eliot

17,831 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,373 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

43

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,275 members

911 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

44

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,736 members

325 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

45

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,672 members

342 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

46

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,533 members

384 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

47

by Haruki Murakami

16,380 members

357 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, gravir

48

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,922 members

966 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,771 members

743 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

50

Where the Crawdads Sing

14,534 members

623 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

51

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,908 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

13,332 members

515 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

54

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,156 members

489 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

55

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,982 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

56

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,757 members

242 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

57

by Madeline Miller

12,610 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

58

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,609 members

260 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

59

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,523 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,276 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by George Eliot

11,413 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

62

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

11,378 members

691 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

63

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,840 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

64

I Capture the Castle

9,241 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,198 members

280 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

66

Little Fires Everywhere

8,979 members

376 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Charlotte Brontë

8,852 members

146 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,729 members

290 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

69

by Ray Bradbury

7,579 members

191 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Gregory David Roberts

7,389 members

230 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

71

The Wasp Factory

7,132 members

204 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

72

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,617 members

139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Margaret Atwood

6,288 members

225 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

74

by John Steinbeck

5,691 members

93 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

75

The Tiger's Wife

5,420 members

338 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

76

5,361 members

60 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

77

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

5,254 members

262 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

78

by Marguerite Duras

5,184 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

79

The Miniaturist

by Jessie Burton

3,983 members

220 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by J. G. Ballard

3,562 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

81

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

3,149 members

192 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

82

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,646 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

83

by León Tolstói

29,064 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy

84

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,265 members

632 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

85

by Gustave Flaubert

26,362 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

86

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

25,002 members

533 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

87

24,233 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

88

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,561 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, jordantaylor

89

Interview with the Vampire

22,986 members

333 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

90

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,545 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

91

by S. E. Hinton

21,224 members

680 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

92

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,551 members

1,249 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

93

by Jostein Gaarder

18,801 members

290 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

94

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,672 members

1,270 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

95

18,330 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

96

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,962 members

370 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

97

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,705 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Foucault's Pendulum

17,570 members

259 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, gravir

99

by Margaret Atwood

17,033 members

538 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

100

by Ralph Ellison

16,275 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy

1 2 3 4

About This List

Started: jordantaylor
December 2020
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

Related Lists

The Novel Cure

99 Bücher, die man gelesen haben muss

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

PBS The Great American Read

Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Award Program (Grades 9-12)

Most Popular Penguins

BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

Books Featured on Readers' Review of the Diane Rehm Show

Current Discussions

None

Related Tags

19th century (15,120) 20th century (13,932) American (8,703) American literature (14,000) British (8,236) British literature (6,962) classic (31,834) classics (35,956) England (9,607) English literature (7,361) fantasy (33,426) fiction (280,423) historical fiction (18,632) humor (8,916) literature (39,511) mystery (11,772) non-fiction (13,547) novel (48,767) own (6,746) read (26,068) romance (11,410) Russian literature (8,343) science fiction (23,425) to-read (152,821) unread (7,575)

Verdana Standard Verdana Small The Lorax System Standard System Large Georgia Large Text Atkinson

This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.