123 books
—
33 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Serious Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,928
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as serious)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,393 ratings — published 1949
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as serious)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,262 ratings — published 2003
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as serious)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,281 ratings — published 1945
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as serious)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,959,574 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as serious)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,351 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as serious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,087 ratings — published 1985
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as serious)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,303,244 ratings — published 1947
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as serious)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,097,998 ratings — published 1925
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,899 ratings — published 1967
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as serious)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,288,815 ratings — published 2004
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as serious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,138,040 ratings — published 1997
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as serious)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,566 ratings — published 1932
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as serious)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800,731 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,911 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,023 ratings — published 1954
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,497,896 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987,659 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,304 ratings — published 1956
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,290 ratings — published 2015
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,357 ratings — published 1963
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,569 ratings — published 1813
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,037,577 ratings — published 2017
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,053,430 ratings — published 2014
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,080,979 ratings — published 2009
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as serious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,173 ratings — published 1847
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as serious)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,587 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,089 ratings — published 1890
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,926,908 ratings — published 1937
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,484,007 ratings — published 2002
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,273 ratings — published 1946
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,262 ratings — published 1992
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.05 — 642,070 ratings — published 1999
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as serious)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,163 ratings — published 1961
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,885,178 ratings — published 1993
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,493 ratings — published 2001
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,950,976 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.17 — 610,871 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,057,798 ratings — published 1999
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,839 ratings — published 1847
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,234 ratings — published 1988
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,282 ratings — published 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,762,108 ratings — published 2018
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,851,620 ratings — published 2012
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,218,330 ratings — published 1996
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078,094 ratings — published 2006
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.08 — 846,795 ratings — published 2010
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,722,250 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,246 ratings — published 1878
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,670 ratings — published 2019
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,060 ratings — published 1955
“Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people”
―
―
