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From No. 1 to No. 60, Readers' Top Books Published in the Past Five Years
Spend enough time on this planet and random questions will gradually surface in the brain. Who invented the window? Why are oranges orange? And what are the 60 most popular books on Goodreads over the past five years?
We’re here to tackle that last question with today’s collection of the 60 top books published in the last half-decade, according to Goodreads members. This particular list is strictly by the numbers. We counted up the number of times Goodreads members marked these books as Want to Read, Currently Reading, or already Read. Then we looked at the average ratings on each title, with all of these books earning at least a 3.5-average star rating from fellow readers.
The books are sequenced according to overall popularity, without regard to genre or categorization. As such, for now, Alex Michaelides’ 2019 psychological thriller The Silent Patient is the most popular book overall. It seems that Goodreads regulars are also enjoying mysteries, romance, and the relatively new hybrid designation known as romantasy.
Authorwise, you’ll notice the usual suspects list of Goodreads fan favorites here—perennially popular writers including Sarah J. Maas, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Kristin Hannah, and Emily Henry. But the discerning reader will find all manner of things to catch the eye. Hockey lust, say, or Dickensian updates, or octopi.
Click on the book cover images for more information about each title. If you spot anything promising, use the Want to Read button to add the book to your digital shelf.
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How many of these books have you read? Let us know in the comments below!
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14 read! Not many I would recommend though. I'm Glad My Mom Died is an all time great and I think it will be a modern classic. Hope McCurdy transitions into the author career and writes other works - maybe even some fiction because her narrative voice is really interesting.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I have read 12/60!
5 but added to my want to read list. thank you
I’ve read 7 and only 3 deserve to be on this list. The rest were enjoyable but nothing special. A couple were not good. The Last Thing He Told Me was surprisingly terrible! Whhhhyy is it even on this list?
23 - Some great books here, but Colleen Hoover is so overrated - gave a couple of them a try and could not even finish the 2nd one.
I've read 24/60. The standouts? Demon Copperhead, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Lessons in Chemistry, The Vanishing Half, The Midnight Library.
26 books read so far.. will try some of the others
30 read and 5 on TBR list. No interest in the rest.
Law wrote: "I've read 13 books on this list and I plan to read many more. Can you recommend me a book to read from this list OTHER than American Dirt? I don't want to read that. Demon Copperhead, Lessons in Ch..."“Remarkably bright creatures” is my favorite from the list. Not on the list but great is The Marriage Portrait. I don’t read romance.
There is only one that I read and few that catch my interest. There are so many many really good books that have been left out.
Have read many of these books and some others on my to read list. My favorites that I've read from this list are: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The House in the Cerulean Sea and In Five Years.
read 29 but dnf'd Crying in H Mart and Daisy Jones. Lots of really good ones on here like The Women, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Lessons in Chemistry and The Four Winds. Project Hail Mary is a great example of how an audiobook can really make a book come to life.
I’ve read 7 and DNF one. I tend to like sagas or offbeat books.I loved Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Maid, West with Giraffes, Carrying Albert Home, A Man Called Ove. I almost didn’t finish Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, got bored and skipped some pages to get to the end.
I’ve read three of these and many more are, once again, on my ridiculously long TBR…
11 read6 on my physical TBR and 14 on my general TBR
and now i'll be adding 4 more...
(i'm ok for more)
Only six…..but so many on my wishlist. You know the drill…..too many books, too little time.
This list is the most popular books with Goodreads readers. Not that these books aren’t probably entertaining, but let’s not equate this list with a best books list. Many books on this list are of little to no interest for this reader.
I’ve read 8 so far and am starting another from the list (“The Women”) which is our Book Club selection this month. An additional 7 from this list are marked as “Want to Read” in my Goodreads account.
I enjoyed a few on this list , The Women, Remarkably Bright Creatures and Project Hail Mary were excellent. I'm just not into beach reads so the majority of these don't interest me.
Idamus wrote: "Well, I dnf'ed 1 and the rest are not on my to be read list...And in average I only read about 200 books per year."
Absolutely.
A lot of these are what I consider pop lit. The equivalent of a sit-com episode...or a Happy Meal. Fun, sure...but "the best of the last five years"? No.
Not all of them. I've read 24 of these and would consider 3 of those some of the best I've read in the last five years.
T.HiggsReviews wrote: "1 = TBR2 = Interested
3 = Maybe
8 = Read
27 = DO NOT READ (problematic books/authors)"
Can you tell me what those 27 books or authors are?
8 on the listWhere are the Geraldine Brooks books!!!
This is a good list!
I've read 9, and 2 more are to be read soon by my book club
Whitney wrote: "I've read 15 and dnf'd another 5Only 8/60 are BIPOC...that's concerning. We need to do better about reading diversely (I know it's based on numbers before anyone comes at me)"
Eight books by authors of colour? I know six but other than Yellowface, Crying in H Mart, The Vanishing Half, Such a Fun Age, Twisted Games and Twisted Love, what are the other two?
I have read 14 of these books and I would put American Dirt as one of the best. Of those putting it down how many have even read the book?annabelle wrote: "A wrote: "I haven't read a single one of these books. Some of these books are good or decent enough. But some of these choices make me despair for some of your souls. Especially the book, American ..."
Cio wrote: "Well some of these books are actually great however in the other hand some of this books are in my never say never list, cause I'm at this point just evading them."
Idamus wrote: "Well, I dnf'ed 1 and the rest are not on my to be read list...And in average I only read about 200 books per year."
I would love to see your book list if you read 200 books a year and none of these are on it. I could use new material!
I have read 11 of them and two or three of those were only because my bookclub chose them. My choices were Lessons in Chemistry, The Women, Demon Copperhead and Remarkably Bright Creatures. Recent books I've read by Kazuro Ishiguro, Ruth Ozeki and Richard Powers aren't even on this list. I agree with the opinion of many others as to the choices ...
17 and all were good to great :) I bookmarked 2 additional ones that "I want to read" after looking at this list and reading synopses.
I've read 17 from the list. Five 5* - eight 4* - Two 3* - Two 2*.
Teddi wrote: "I've read 3 of them. I don't tend to read trendy books 😊"Agreed! I tried some of these poorly written - but popular - and can't get back those minutes of my life.
