Not including boxsets, collection books, picture books, non-published web stories, short stories (except for short story collections which were originally published as so) or selection books from a certain author.
Also not counting non-fiction, except for memoirs.
As of 2025-11-22, a book needs a minimum of 4.46 to be on this list
Top 100 including series: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Also not counting non-fiction, except for memoirs.
As of 2025-11-22, a book needs a minimum of 4.46 to be on this list
Top 100 including series: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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Agustín
353 books
24 friends
24 friends
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3128 books
1 friend
1 friend
Mary
3 books
4 friends
4 friends
Chuck
1732 books
6 friends
6 friends
Chuu
224 books
0 friends
0 friends
Elaine
2 books
0 friends
0 friends
Steve
995 books
6 friends
6 friends
Amelia
685 books
23 friends
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Jan 16, 2024 10:02AM
I haven't been looking at this list, I guess it needs some maintenance
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Removing lowest rated books on this list4.37 - Batman: The Killing Joke
4.37 - The Brothers Karamazov
4.36 - The Best We Could Do
4.38 - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
4.35 - The Wish
4.37 - A Fine Balance
4.37 - Man’s Search for Meaning
4.38 - The Darkest Child
4.38 - The Boy on the Wooden Box
4.38 - Young Mungo
4.36 - Salt to the Sea
4.37 - Between Shades of Gray
4.38 - A Man Called Ove
Removing more lowest rated books on this list4.39 - Where the Crawdads Sing
4.39 - Persona normal
4.39 - Poeta chileno
4.39 - The Book Thief
4.39 - The Complete Persepolis
4.38 - Honor
4.39 - Patria
4.37 - Wonder
4.38 - Watchmen
4.40 - Reminders of Him
4.40 - Before We Were Yours
4.40 - Between the World and Me
4.40 - When Breath Becomes Air
Removing more lowest rated books on this list - the minimum is now 4.424.40 The House in the Cerulean Sea
4.40 Remarkably Bright Creatures
4.41 This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
4.41 Betty
4.41 I Must Betray You
4.41 East of Eden
Would a 'standalones or first book in series' list make sense? To capture the top 100 eliminating the "only people who like the series read on" inflation of later series books.
Removed for being neither memoir nor fiction:War's Unwomanly Face
Removed for having an average rating of less than 4.44, which is the new limit:
The Martian
The Great Alone
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Book of Lost Names
The Frozen River
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
In the Dream House
Las malas
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Punching the Air
Ficciones
They Called Us Enemy
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Removed for having an average rating of less than 4.45:Roots: The Saga of an American Family
The Covenant of Water
Starfish
Strong Female Character
Becoming
Removed for having an average rating of less than 4.45:I’m Glad My Mom Died
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
Removed for having an average rating of less than 4.45:The Rose Code
Torto Arado
Mayluna
My Friends
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Removed for having an average rating of less than 4.46:A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Hate U Give
Only the Beautiful
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Nos âmes tourmentées
Just a Regular Boy
So Long, Chester Wheeler
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