Must Reads in 2009
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popular to-read books (showing 1-50 of 100,000)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 49465 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.04 — 169,051 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 44265 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.21 — 246,925 ratings — published 1999
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 38469 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,589 ratings — published 1967
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 38181 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.70 — 154,913 ratings — published 1988
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 35858 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.85 — 184,981 ratings — published 2002
Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 33097 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.94 — 123,560 ratings — published 2002
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 32767 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.62 — 149,918 ratings — published 2006
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 32595 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.27 — 332,314 ratings — published 1960
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 32093 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,439 ratings — published 1969
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 31602 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.83 — 261,309 ratings — published 1945
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 31298 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,091 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 28944 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.94 — 197,319 ratings — published 1997
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards (shelved 28011 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.43 — 112,172 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 27603 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,820 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 27602 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 210,125 ratings — published 1949
Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 26581 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.89 — 90,095 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 26564 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 124,367 ratings — published 1998
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 26224 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,206 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 26063 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,875 ratings — published 2006
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas (shelved 26020 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.10 — 90,451 ratings — published 1844
The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 25743 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.67 — 173,863 ratings — published 2002
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by Victor Hugo (shelved 25546 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 76,591 ratings — published 1862
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 25170 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 256,796 ratings — published 1922
Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 22847 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,946 ratings — published 1945
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 22492 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.71 — 102,395 ratings — published 1859
Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 21968 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.79 — 113,138 ratings — published 2001
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 21692 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.08 — 100,597 ratings — published 1811
Jane Eyre (Compact English Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 21324 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.75 — 5 ratings — published 1847
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 21198 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 279,764 ratings — published 2005
The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by Markus Zusak (shelved 21141 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,995 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 20786 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 201,943 ratings — published 1937
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 20626 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.78 — 73,409 ratings — published 2005
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 20232 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.23 — 70,660 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 20148 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.87 — 134,440 ratings — published 1932
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 19954 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,730 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 19380 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.58 — 206,864 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 19148 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,456 ratings — published 1965
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville (shelved 18937 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.33 — 56,767 ratings — published 1851
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 18865 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,852 ratings — published 2006
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 18155 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.66 — 94,468 ratings — published 1818
Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 18078 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.89 — 100,955 ratings — published 1953
The Host (Hardcover)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 17381 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,680 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 17148 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.69 — 61,469 ratings — published 2000
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 17094 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 60,498 ratings — published 1985
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)
by Douglas Adams (shelved 16890 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.04 — 91,511 ratings — published 1979
Gone With The Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 16876 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.19 — 86,775 ratings — published 1936
Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 16669 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.00 — 164,686 ratings — published 1867
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 16202 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.57 — 303,563 ratings — published 2000
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 16029 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.35 — 100,979 ratings — published 1995
Fast Food Nation (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 15970 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 56,010 ratings — published 2001
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