Most Popular 50 books on GoodReads of All Time in the World

[Rora]

Here's the updated list... click here

There's only 6 that I haven't read.

[Slayermel]

I'm at 18 now and like you Natasha there are a few on there that I have no desire to read what so ever. :0)

[Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)]

I'm at 35 read. Some I'd like to read and some I have no interest in reading.

[Karen]

So far 20,but have a few of the others in my tbr mountain

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I have read 38 of them and have another 7 on my TBR list, one of which I am currently reading. Of the other 5, I haven't yet decided whether I want to read them or not.

[Pollyanna]

So far I have only read 11, but a lot of these are on my TBR list and I also own some of them already.

[Em]

I've read 20 so far. I agree with previous posts about Twilight. I understand they are popular but I can't understand why. The first one was alright but they just went downhill from there. No, actually the second book was the all-time low and then the last two got a little better. Enough ranting from me though :)

[Meg]

I've read 16 of the 50 books on this list. I'm not really interested in reading the Harry Potter books because I have seen the movies and reading the book after seeing the movie is usually hard for me. I keep waiting for the book to get to the parts I know are coming up, thus making the book too slow for me. Maybe in the future I'll try and read the books.

Nor do I have any interest in the Twilight series. But I think thats my own snobbery about how popular and insane the craze has become. I've thought about it cause a lot of my friends have read it...so we'll see.

"The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime", "The Time Traveler's Wife", and "The Poisonwood Bible" I have bought and am going to be reading them in the near future. The rest I am interested in and will probably get to it eventually.

I am not finished with it yet, but I am currently reading "Olive Kitteridge" and so far I love it and am surprised it's not on the list.

[Mercy]

I am at 28 :) I loved Haddon and Hosseni and Twilight a lot. But i agree, Twilight movies are a torture to watch.

[Em]

Read:21 TBR:16

Some I'm not really that interested in.. (although maybe I should reconsider since they're so popular)

[Katey]

wow i've only read 13 out of that 50
some of the ones I haven't read are in my to be read shelf and like other people some i have no interest in whatsoever...ESPECIALLY Lord of the Flies- William Golding

[Susan]

1. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
10. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
11. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
12. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
13. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
14. 1984 by George Orwell--but SO long ago
15. Where the Sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein
16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
17. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
18. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
19. Lord of the Flies by William Golding--long ago
20. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
21. Animal Farm by George Orwell--long ago
22. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
23. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
24. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
26. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
27. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
28. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
29. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
30. The Giver by Lois Lowry
31. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
32. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
33. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
34. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
35. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
36. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
37. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
38. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
39. Midllesex by Jeffrey Euginides
40. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
41. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
42. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
43. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
44. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
45. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
46. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
47. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
48. Naked by David Sedaris
49. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

How many of the above list have you read?
Which ones have you been wanting to read but just haven't? How many are there? None of the others is on my TBR list yet, though there are several that feel like "should"s to me.
Which book do you think don't deserve this popularity? Clearly, the list is slanted to relatively recent books. Don Quixote isn't here but The Lovely Bones is??? And, in spite of their overwhelming popularity, I found the HP books not to be worth the time to read. I read the first, and settled for the movies after that. I'm glad they're there, because they encourage so many kids who would otherwise be reluctant readers. But just not worth the time for me.
What book have you read, really liked, and you would expect it to be on the list but isn't?
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guinshould be, but I can't say I expected it.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I'm up to 36on the current list, and I have 4 already slated to read.

[Sunflower]

41 and there is probably only one more that I have any intention of reading!

[Crystal]

Naked, Me talk Pretty, Slaughterhouse, Glass Castle, Time travelers, Lord of the Flies, One Hundred Years are the ones I haven't read.
How many of the above list have you read? 44
Which ones have you been wanting to read but just haven't? The Glass Castle. Of the 6 I haven't read, I started 2 of them and didn't like them. The other 3 just don't interest me.

Which book do you think don't deserve this popularity? One Hundred Years - ugh. I abandoned it.

What book have you read, really liked, and you would expect it to be on the list but isn't? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

[Tara]

Tara wrote: "I have read 15 so far. Amazingly enough, I have never read any of the Harry Potter books which was quite a lot of the books on the list. "

I am at 21 now. I have not looked at the thread in a while so it was nice to come back and see that I (however unintentionally) read a few more.
I have now read one of the Harry Potter books!

[Christy]

I've read 18 on this list and there are 6 more on my TBR list.

I find the fact that there are 2 David Sedaris books on this list startling as I tried to read one of his and just didn't connect with it.

I expected to see way more classics on this list rather than mostly recent releases. I wonder if this is because most people just review what they have just finished and aren't going back to review all of the books they've read.

[Brad Theado]

35 out of 50.
There really isnt anything on here that I would want to read that I havent already.
The Twilight series doesnt belong. Not that I didnt enjoy it but I wouldn't put it in my top 500 let alone 50.
The Stand is one of my all time favorite books along with Great Expectations.

[Kayla]

I've read 31 out of the 50, and about 9 or 10 I would like to read.

It's good to see a lot of classics on there, though it's hard to find anyone around who actually enjoys reading them. The goodreads classics group that I'm in is practically dead. I tried to find other classics groups that had more active discussions, but it turns out my group is the most active of all the others. Shame. ):

[LynnB]

I've read 40 of the 50. Of those I haven't read, I think there are only two that would interest me ... The Glass Castle and The Giver ... though I don't think they are high on my list to read. I have read one book each by David Sedaris, Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer and none of those are authors with stories that made me want to read more.

[Shelli]

I have read 34 of these and not all that I've have I liked...in fact one I absolutely hated...I felt better when I realized this is a "popular" list, because while several would be in my all-time favs(Harry Potter series, Middlesex, ATSSuns, TKAMockingbird among others)many I don't consider that good...some like Twilight were fun...not great writing though.

[Lahni]

I noticed the original list/post was from 2008. Has the list changed at all in the last 2 years?

[Susan]

Updating a few of my answers. I'd read 28 when I first posted in May. Just discovered (October) that I've added 3 more since then.

And in May, I said that none of the others was on my TBR list. But now that I've read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, I'll definitely read his A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Shelli]

Susan...both are great reads...don't read them back to back though...give yourself a little time in between....I read TKR first and never thought ATSS would be as good...but it might have been even better!

[Susan]

Shelli wrote: "Susan...both are great reads...don't read them back to back though...give yourself a little time in between....I read TKR first and never thought ATSS would be as good...but it might have been even..."

Good tip, Shelli. Thanks!

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Karen wrote: "1. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
4. [book:Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|..."

Surprised at some of these.
I haven't read any of the Harry Potter or Twilight books, so those are out.

Read To Kill a Mockingbird but it was so long ago I forgot everything about it. I seriously need to read up on some more classics!
I've read of Mice and Men and that's it. Many of those listed are on my to-be-read list.

[Danna]

Tien (aka Kazza) wrote: "1. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Row..."

How do you know? Is there a list or something?

[Tien]

There was, Danna. I got that list in 2008 so it's been a few years and GR has gone through a number of changes. I'm not sure if I can find where I got that list from and if I can, I'm sure it would've changed significantly. :)

[Danna]

Oh, alright :) Thank you!