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The Most Read Books of the Reading Challenge (By Genre)
Every January, millions of readers join the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Last year alone, more than 4.3 million Goodreads members pledged to read more than 276 million books.
As we begin the 2020 Reading Challenge, we thought we'd quickly look back at the most-read books of last year's Challenge. Of millions of readers who participated in 2019, these were their top eight books across several genres. Of course this list is full of Goodreads members favorite books, from Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine to Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and everything in between!
We hope this selection helps kickstart your new year of reading! And don't forget to add the books that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf.
As we begin the 2020 Reading Challenge, we thought we'd quickly look back at the most-read books of last year's Challenge. Of millions of readers who participated in 2019, these were their top eight books across several genres. Of course this list is full of Goodreads members favorite books, from Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine to Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and everything in between!
We hope this selection helps kickstart your new year of reading! And don't forget to add the books that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf.
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We're curious: What are your first reads of 2020? Tell us in the comments!
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This is a great use of the data available through the yearly reading challenges. Would love to see more lists covering multiple genres and maybe also some infographics.Keep up the good work!
Very cool, love this kind of content. I'm reading my first Discworld novel (Guards! Guards!)
Good to get these list but missing other genre like sci-fi, ya, romance...
I just finished Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination today and it was great!
The Beantown Girls is sad, funny, and enlightening about life in WWII.
Women Talking by Miriam ToewsOlive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Miracle Creek, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Kate wrote: "Miracle Creek, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"Miracle Creek was my favourite read of 2019. Hope you enjoy!
I am reading Different Seasons by Stephen King in paper, reading the Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall on kindle and listening to Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jenssen on audio
The Handmaids Tale to get ready for Testaments - our January book club read!
mine was Strange Girls: Women in Horror Anthology which officially comes out during Women in Horror month 2020 on February 18,2020
(for actuality's reason) On Fire: The Case for the Green New Dealby Naomi Klein. And I just finished 'A Politics of Love' by Marianne Williamson.
Amber wrote: "Very cool, love this kind of content. I'm reading my first Discworld novel (Guards! Guards!)"That was my introduction to Discworld, too! An old manager of mine turned me onto Discworld and I remain eternally grateful. Enjoy!
Amber wrote: "Very cool, love this kind of content. I'm reading my first Discworld novel (Guards! Guards!)"If you find that you like that one, you're on for a fantastic journey :-) Happy reading!
Lucy wrote: "What happened to Fantasy, Sci-fi?"Great question! And, it should be two categories!
My first reads for 2020...Rethink...For a Change: Transformed Living Through Transformed Thinking
Intellectuals and Society
Mere Christianity
Good books so far! Of course, none are fiction.
Halfway through "Where the Crawdads Sing" and my next book will be "The Life we Bury"
Much better list than the 2019 Goodreads Vote List kust published.
Always fascinated to see what other people consider a "classic." I don't count it unless it's over 100 years old; literature is such an old tradition anything younger than that seems untested. I'd also like to see a distinction between general nonfiction and memoir/biography.
And poetry.
But more data and lists like this, please.
And bring back the most-read authors feature. Put it in a more prominent place and make it usable on the mobile app. It was one of the most useful tools on Goodreads.
Amber wrote: "Very cool, love this kind of content. I'm reading my first Discworld novel (Guards! Guards!)"i read my first in december, cheers!
Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist, by Angelica Shirley Carpenter. I'm reading up on the history of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage. Just finished Elaine Weiss's The Woman's Hour.
Listening to Among Others by Jo Walton and enjoying it very much
The great sea- the human history of Mediterranean by D.A.
