Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Sign in with Facebook
From a list posted in the Reading 1001 group. This list contains books that are on BOTH the Boxall's 1001 Books to Read Before You Die and Guardian's 1000 list.
You can see list compile by Leni here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PLEASE DO NOT ADD BOOKS THAT DON'T APPEAR ON THAT LIST.
You can see list compile by Leni here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PLEASE DO NOT ADD BOOKS THAT DON'T APPEAR ON THAT LIST.
Score
A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
| 1 |
|
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,357,717 ratings
score: 292,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 2 |
|
Jane Eyre
by
4.16 avg rating — 2,280,826 ratings
score: 278,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 3 |
|
A Tale of Two Cities
by
3.88 avg rating — 1,001,947 ratings
score: 233,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4 |
|
Wuthering Heights
by
3.90 avg rating — 1,983,319 ratings
score: 229,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 5 |
|
The Great Gatsby
by
3.93 avg rating — 5,791,675 ratings
score: 224,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 6 |
|
Pride and Prejudice
by
4.29 avg rating — 4,692,446 ratings
score: 190,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 7 |
|
Sense and Sensibility
by
4.09 avg rating — 1,277,091 ratings
score: 189,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 8 |
|
Persuasion
by
4.15 avg rating — 760,608 ratings
score: 188,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 9 |
|
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
4.12 avg rating — 1,082,480 ratings
score: 180,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 10 |
|
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by
4.17 avg rating — 2,415,120 ratings
score: 175,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 10 |
|
Possession
by
3.90 avg rating — 83,621 ratings
score: 175,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 12 |
|
Emma
by
4.05 avg rating — 960,846 ratings
score: 169,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 13 |
|
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by
3.94 avg rating — 166,125 ratings
score: 167,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 14 |
|
Northanger Abbey
by
3.85 avg rating — 444,057 ratings
score: 166,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 15 |
|
The Blind Assassin
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 162,129 ratings
score: 163,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 16 |
|
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by
3.73 avg rating — 51,553 ratings
score: 155,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 17 |
|
The Color Purple
by
4.28 avg rating — 742,731 ratings
score: 154,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 18 |
|
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by
4.09 avg rating — 502,465 ratings
score: 153,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 19 |
|
Middlemarch
by
4.03 avg rating — 176,565 ratings
score: 151,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 20 |
|
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by
4.06 avg rating — 601,794 ratings
score: 149,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 21 |
|
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by
3.74 avg rating — 406,296 ratings
score: 141,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 22 |
|
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by
4.26 avg rating — 334,161 ratings
score: 140,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 23 |
|
The Little Prince
by
4.33 avg rating — 2,408,755 ratings
score: 135,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 24 |
|
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by
3.89 avg rating — 1,579,154 ratings
score: 129,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 25 |
|
The Stranger
by
4.03 avg rating — 1,343,894 ratings
score: 127,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 26 |
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
by
3.85 avg rating — 248,891 ratings
score: 126,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 26 |
|
Great Expectations
by
3.80 avg rating — 862,998 ratings
score: 126,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 28 |
|
Brave New World
by
3.99 avg rating — 2,038,112 ratings
score: 123,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 29 |
|
Cat’s Eye
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 71,868 ratings
score: 122,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 30 |
|
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by
4.14 avg rating — 380,356 ratings
score: 121,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 30 |
|
1984
by
4.20 avg rating — 5,306,325 ratings
score: 121,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 32 |
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by
4.20 avg rating — 772,168 ratings
score: 109,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 33 |
|
Robinson Crusoe
by
3.68 avg rating — 327,372 ratings
score: 107,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 33 |
|
Tender Is the Night
by
3.77 avg rating — 147,897 ratings
score: 107,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 35 |
|
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by
4.22 avg rating — 1,985,499 ratings
score: 99,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 36 |
|
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by
4.17 avg rating — 586,379 ratings
score: 97,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 37 |
|
Villette
by
3.78 avg rating — 79,207 ratings
score: 94,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 38 |
|
Bleak House
by
4.02 avg rating — 112,970 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 39 |
|
The God of Small Things
by
Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,817 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 40 |
|
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by
3.97 avg rating — 481,569 ratings
score: 91,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 41 |
|
The Mill on the Floss
by
3.83 avg rating — 58,434 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 42 |
|
Bonjour tristesse
by
3.74 avg rating — 69,645 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 43 |
|
Giovanni’s Room
by
4.34 avg rating — 236,012 ratings
score: 88,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 44 |
|
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by
4.05 avg rating — 79,484 ratings
score: 87,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 44 |
|
Suite Française
by
3.86 avg rating — 77,440 ratings
score: 87,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 46 |
|
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by
4.02 avg rating — 33,282 ratings
score: 86,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 46 |
|
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
by
4.17 avg rating — 24,531 ratings
score: 86,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 48 |
|
Oroonoko
by
3.01 avg rating — 16,544 ratings
score: 85,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 48 |
|
The Reader
by
3.79 avg rating — 228,238 ratings
score: 85,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 50 |
|
Herzog
by
3.76 avg rating — 22,660 ratings
score: 84,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 50 |
|
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by
4.14 avg rating — 309,779 ratings
score: 84,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 52 |
|
A Dry White Season
by
4.07 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
score: 83,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 53 |
|
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by
3.69 avg rating — 151,213 ratings
score: 82,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 53 |
|
The Line of Beauty
by
3.77 avg rating — 31,084 ratings
score: 82,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 55 |
|
The Master and Margarita
by
4.28 avg rating — 408,101 ratings
score: 81,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 55 |
|
The Name of the Rose
by
4.14 avg rating — 390,410 ratings
score: 81,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 57 |
|
On Beauty
by
3.78 avg rating — 89,798 ratings
score: 80,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 58 |
|
Invisible Cities
by
4.10 avg rating — 94,949 ratings
score: 79,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 58 |
|
Daniel Deronda
by
3.86 avg rating — 26,694 ratings
score: 79,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 60 |
|
The Plague
by
4.02 avg rating — 305,471 ratings
score: 77,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 61 |
|
Anna Karenina
by
4.10 avg rating — 915,202 ratings
score: 75,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 62 |
|
Wise Children
by
3.90 avg rating — 9,486 ratings
score: 74,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 63 |
|
Nights at the Circus
by
3.88 avg rating — 14,474 ratings
score: 73,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 64 |
|
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by
4.19 avg rating — 210,894 ratings
score: 72,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 64 |
|
North and South
by
4.15 avg rating — 180,944 ratings
score: 72,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 66 |
|
The Awakening
by
3.69 avg rating — 224,195 ratings
score: 70,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 67 |
|
Waiting for the Barbarians
by
3.93 avg rating — 35,106 ratings
score: 68,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 67 |
|
Crime and Punishment
by
4.28 avg rating — 1,043,540 ratings
score: 68,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 69 |
|
Disgrace
by
3.86 avg rating — 115,250 ratings
score: 67,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 70 |
|
The Woman in White
by
4.01 avg rating — 163,825 ratings
score: 66,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 70 |
|
The Lover
by
3.71 avg rating — 69,978 ratings
score: 66,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 72 |
|
Heart of Darkness
by
3.43 avg rating — 550,153 ratings
score: 65,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 72 |
|
The Count of Monte Cristo
by
4.32 avg rating — 1,002,900 ratings
score: 65,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 74 |
|
House of Leaves
by
Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
score: 64,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 74 |
|
The Three Musketeers
by
4.10 avg rating — 346,828 ratings
score: 64,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 76 |
|
The Princesse de Cleves
by
3.35 avg rating — 18,372 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 76 |
|
Foucault’s Pendulum
by
3.91 avg rating — 74,157 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 78 |
|
Moll Flanders
by
3.52 avg rating — 48,302 ratings
score: 61,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 78 |
|
Doctor Zhivago
by
4.01 avg rating — 101,796 ratings
score: 61,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 80 |
|
Orlando
by
3.87 avg rating — 111,635 ratings
score: 60,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 81 |
|
Oliver Twist
by
3.88 avg rating — 422,420 ratings
score: 57,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 81 |
|
Ivanhoe
by
3.76 avg rating — 98,383 ratings
score: 57,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 83 |
|
White Teeth
by
3.79 avg rating — 172,338 ratings
score: 56,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 84 |
|
Play It As It Lays
by
3.91 avg rating — 87,693 ratings
score: 55,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 84 |
|
The Golden Notebook
by
3.77 avg rating — 24,402 ratings
score: 55,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 86 |
|
Vanity Fair
by
3.81 avg rating — 132,442 ratings
score: 54,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 87 |
|
Rebecca
by
4.25 avg rating — 707,518 ratings
score: 53,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 87 |
|
The Lord of the Rings
by
4.54 avg rating — 721,496 ratings
score: 53,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 89 |
|
Castle Rackrent
by
3.16 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
score: 52,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 89 |
|
Fathers and Sons
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 99,030 ratings
score: 52,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 91 |
|
American Psycho
by
3.80 avg rating — 353,405 ratings
score: 50,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 92 |
|
The Gathering
by
3.14 avg rating — 25,928 ratings
score: 49,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 93 |
|
Middlesex
by
4.04 avg rating — 659,523 ratings
score: 48,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 94 |
|
The Virgin Suicides
by
3.78 avg rating — 402,035 ratings
score: 47,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 95 |
|
The Sound and the Fury
by
3.86 avg rating — 193,598 ratings
score: 46,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 95 |
|
Dead Souls
by
3.98 avg rating — 94,300 ratings
score: 46,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 97 |
|
Of Mice and Men
by
3.89 avg rating — 2,778,730 ratings
score: 44,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 98 |
|
Madame Bovary
by
3.71 avg rating — 367,927 ratings
score: 43,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 98 |
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by
3.85 avg rating — 220,856 ratings
score: 43,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 100 |
|
Everything is Illuminated
by
Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 183,219 ratings
score: 42,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
150 books ·
4 voters ·
list created January 15th, 2021
by Jessica Haider (votes) .
Tags:
1001
People Who Voted On This List (4)
Jessica
9966 books
1461 friends
1461 friends
Charlotte Igelkott
3106 books
1 friend
1 friend
Megan
1444 books
6 friends
6 friends
Lisa
1784 books
55 friends
55 friends
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
