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 48698 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.04 — 166,779 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 43761 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.21 — 244,699 ratings — published 1999
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 37753 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.00 — 113,959 ratings — published 1967
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 37545 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.70 — 152,856 ratings — published 1988
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 35367 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.85 — 183,035 ratings — published 2002
Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 32645 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.94 — 122,415 ratings — published 2002
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 32327 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.62 — 148,458 ratings — published 2006
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 32065 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 328,507 ratings — published 1960
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 31492 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,649 ratings — published 1969
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 30985 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.83 — 258,368 ratings — published 1945
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 30831 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,702 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 28423 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.94 — 195,157 ratings — published 1997
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards (shelved 27602 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.43 — 110,874 ratings — published 2005
1984 (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 27150 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 207,754 ratings — published 1949
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 27125 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,411 ratings — published 1813
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 26124 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 123,135 ratings — published 1998
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 26065 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,414 ratings — published 2006
Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 26058 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,756 ratings — published 1958
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 25944 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,191 ratings — published 2006
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas (shelved 25444 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.10 — 88,725 ratings — published 1844
The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 25401 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.67 — 171,974 ratings — published 2002
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by Victor Hugo (shelved 24968 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 75,045 ratings — published 1862
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 24640 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 253,875 ratings — published 1922
Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 22375 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.72 — 204,274 ratings — published 1945
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 21973 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.71 — 100,581 ratings — published 1859
Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 21849 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,613 ratings — published 2001
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 21278 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,918 ratings — published 1811
Jane Eyre (Graphic Novel)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 20958 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 19 ratings — published 1847
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 20939 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 276,286 ratings — published 2005
The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by Markus Zusak (shelved 20931 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,287 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 20349 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 199,339 ratings — published 1937
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 20261 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.78 — 72,518 ratings — published 2005
Vrli novi svijet (Hard cover)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 19814 times as to-read)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1932
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 19776 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,288 ratings — published 1973
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 19591 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 83,483 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 19007 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.58 — 204,295 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 18784 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,326 ratings — published 1965
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 18728 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,382 ratings — published 2006
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville (shelved 18513 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.33 — 55,303 ratings — published 1851
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 18282 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.66 — 92,644 ratings — published 1818
Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 17702 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.89 — 99,188 ratings — published 1953
The Host (Hardcover)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 17236 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,071 ratings — published 2008
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 17005 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 60,313 ratings — published 1985
Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 16902 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.00 — 162,386 ratings — published 1867
The Tipping Point (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 16892 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.69 — 60,628 ratings — published 2000
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)
by Douglas Adams (shelved 16535 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.04 — 89,916 ratings — published 1979
Gone With The Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 16530 times as to-read)
avg rating 4.19 — 85,189 ratings — published 1936
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 15927 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.57 — 300,399 ratings — published 2000
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 15895 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.35 — 100,359 ratings — published 1995
Fast Food Nation (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 15663 times as to-read)
avg rating 3.75 — 55,184 ratings — published 2001
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