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Libraries' Top 500

What makes a novel “great”? At OCLC, we believe literary greatness can be measured by how many libraries have a copy on their shelves. Yes, libraries offer access to trendy and popular books. But, they don’t keep them on the shelf if they’re not repeatedly requested by their communities over the years. We’ve identified 500 timeless, top novels—those found in thousands of libraries around the world—using WorldCat, the world’s largest database of library materials.

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1
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1960
4
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1876
5
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · 13 lists
6
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
7
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
8
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
9
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851
10
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
11
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
12
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1678
13
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1843 · 6 lists
14
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
15
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 1859 · 7 lists
16
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1848 · 13 lists
17
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
18
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937
19
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
20
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 1838 · 5 lists
21
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1850 · 6 lists
22
Crime and Punishment
Fiódor Dostoyevski · 1928
23
Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial life
Gustave Flaubert · 1957
24
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1955
25
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897 · 16 lists
26
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 1970 · 6 lists
27
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
28
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
29
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
30
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 1900
31
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
32
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
33
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
34
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
35
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
36
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · 1903 · 13 lists
37
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 1869
38
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
39
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
40
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1891 · 11 lists
41
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
42
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1811 · 6 lists
43
Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 · 5 lists
44
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
45
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
J.K. Rowling · 1997
46
Heidi
Johanna Spyri · 1885
47
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
48
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900
49
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844
50
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
51
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis · 1950
52
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo · 1924
53
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi · 1883
54
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
55
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 3 lists
56
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane · 1855
57
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · 1908
58
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · 1877
59
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie · 1911
60
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
61
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851 · 3 lists
62
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954
63
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain · 1881
64
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916 · 15 lists
65
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad · 1900 · 9 lists
66
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
J.K. Rowling · 1998
67
The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
68
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942
69
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 20 lists
70
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 1900
71
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1938
72
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951
73
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
74
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne · 1962
75
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
76
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929
77
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936
78
My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 1918
79
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1937
80
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith · 1766 · 2 lists
81
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain · 1889
82
White Fang
Jack London · 1906
83
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev · 2014
84
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1998
85
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516
86
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948
87
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 1906 · 8 lists
88
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · 2003
89
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817 · 7 lists
90
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 1814 · 3 lists
91
Candide
Voltaire · 1746 · 11 lists
92
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
93
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · 1874 · 3 lists
94
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954
95
The Return
Hisham Matar · 1950 · 6 lists
96
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence · 1913 · 11 lists
97
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White · 1952
98
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss · 1812
99
Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 11 lists
100
Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · 1800 · 3 lists
101
Utopia
Thomas More · 1518
102
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding · 1749
103
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling · 1999
104
Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · 8 lists
105
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929
106
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling · 1993
107
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot · 1800 · 3 lists
108
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 1962
109
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901 · 11 lists
110
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954
111
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells · 1898 · 7 lists
112
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
113
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920 · 17 lists
114
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
115
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1818 · 2 lists
116
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
117
On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1957
118
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961
119
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · 1956 · 2 lists
120
Hard Times
Charles Dickens · 1854 · 2 lists
121
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
122
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925
123
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
124
The Magician’s Nephew
C.S. Lewis · 1955
125
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling · 2003
126
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926
127
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 1548
128
Silas Marner
George Eliot · 1861 · 4 lists
129
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
130
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 1938
131
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1895 · 8 lists
132
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
133
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924 · 18 lists
134
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947
135
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 4 lists
136
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 1947
137
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1910 · 5 lists
138
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 2000 · 10 lists
139
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 1993
140
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 1988
141
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 7 lists
142
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 · 11 lists
143
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933
144
The Idiot
Fiódor Dostoyevski · 1916
145
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen · 1986
146
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003
147
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
148
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
149
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton · 1967
150
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace · 1800 · 2 lists
151
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1919 · 5 lists
152
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1940
153
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis · 1956
154
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling · 1897
155
The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1907
156
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915
157
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
158
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl · 1961
159
The Horse and His Boy
C.S. Lewis · 1954
160
Angels & Demons
Dan Brown · 2000
161
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis · 1952
162
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1963
163
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence · 1920 · 9 lists
164
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938
165
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather · 1913
166
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
167
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868 · 7 lists
168
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens · 1800
169
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 1857
170
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
C.S. Lewis · 1977
171
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser · 1900 · 4 lists
172
The Silver Chair
C.S. Lewis · 1953
173
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
174
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
175
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac · 1868 · 4 lists
176
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 · 7 lists
177
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin · 1958
178
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001
179
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling · 2007
180
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952
181
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 1927
182
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2017 · 4 lists
183
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson · 1977
184
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells · 1897 · 2 lists
185
Holes
Louis Sachar · 1988
186
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922 · 5 lists
187
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 1943
188
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll · 1871
189
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965
190
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 1982
191
Adam Bede
George Eliot · 1859 · 2 lists
192
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni · 1800 · 3 lists
193
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
194
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
195
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962
196
The Sea Wolf
Jack London · 1904
197
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins · 2009
198
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor · 1976
199
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather · 1927
200
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905 · 8 lists
201
Light in August
William Faulkner · 1931
202
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1994
203
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913
204
Barchester Towers and the Warden
Anthony Trollope · 1936
205
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder · 1927
206
The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
207
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · 1934
208
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2002
209
The Appeal
John Grisham · 2008
210
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens · 1848
211
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969
212
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser · 1900
213
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970
214
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1932
215
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren · 2011
216
Germinal
Émile Zola · 1885 · 5 lists
217
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers · 1940
218
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 1860 · 11 lists
219
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936
220
A Painted House
John Grisham · 2001
221
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · 2011
222
A Room With a View
E. M. Forster · 1908 · 7 lists
223
Watership Down
Richard Adams · 1972
224
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1999
225
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 6 lists
226
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · 1922 · 6 lists
227
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck · 1937
228
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 1946
229
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
230
Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore · 1869
231
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes · 1943
232
Anne of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery · 1909
233
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt · 1975
234
The BFG
Roald Dahl · 1980
235
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1945
236
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1989
237
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1977
238
Roots
Alex Haley · 1861
239
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935
240
Native Son
Richard Wright · 1940
241
Stuart Little
E. B. White · 1945
242
Cross Fire
James Patterson · 1998
243
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene · 1940
244
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
245
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux · 1910
246
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 1950
247
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
248
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler · 1903 · 3 lists
249
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Jeff Kinney · 2014
250
Villette
Charlotte Brontë · 1853 · 4 lists
251
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003
252
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne · 1888
253
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · 14 lists
254
Nana
Émile Zola · 1880 · 2 lists
255
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1896 · 2 lists
256
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis · 1920 · 7 lists
257
Matilda
Roald Dahl · 1988
258
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
259
Paper Towns
John Green · 2008
260
Sounder
William H. Armstrong · 1969
261
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume · 1970
262
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks · 1996
263
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg · 1967
264
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · 1936
265
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand · 1943
266
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry · 1989
267
The Firm
John Grisham · 1991
268
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust · 2016
269
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
270
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 1985
271
A Time to Kill
John Grisham · 1989
272
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen · 2006
273
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells · 1895 · 5 lists
274
Eragon
Christopher Paolini · 2003
275
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 1979
276
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1909 · 11 lists
277
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
278
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare · 1958
279
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 1939
280
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · 1966
281
Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer · 2008
282
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915
283
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson · 2005
284
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls · 1961
285
Mort
Terry Pratchett · 1557
286
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins · 2010
287
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
288
Persian Letters
Montesquieu · 1721
289
The Client
John Grisham · 1993
290
Sula
Toni Morrison · 1973
291
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume · 1972
292
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
Howard Pyle · 1955
293
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck · 1935
294
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe · 1929
295
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens · 1870
296
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1945
297
The Pelican Brief
John Grisham · 1992
298
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
299
Washington Square
Henry James · 1880
300
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel · 2011
301
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman · 2007
302
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd · 2002
303
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2010
304
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad · 1904 · 9 lists
305
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · 1928
306
The Brethren
John Grisham · 2000
307
Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 2002
308
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
309
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1937
310
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin · 1965
311
The Ambassadors
Henry James · 1903 · 8 lists
312
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907 · 4 lists
313
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 1983
314
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · 1952
315
The Testament
John Grisham · 1999
316
The Clan Of The Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel · 1900
317
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell · 1853 · 3 lists
318
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo · 2000
319
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George · 1959
320
The Runaway Jury
John Grisham · 1996
321
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary · 1965
322
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown · 2009
323
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 1898 · 5 lists
324
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 2011
325
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
326
The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer-Lytton · 1834
327
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink · 1925
328
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink · 1935
329
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo · 2003
330
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson · 2005
331
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary · 1983
332
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara · 1974
333
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez · 1981
334
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2003
335
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967
336
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · 1919
337
"P" Is for Peril
Sue Grafton · 2001
338
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult · 2004
339
Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens · 1840
340
Howards End
E. M. Forster · 1910 · 11 lists
341
The Broker
John Grisham · 2005
342
The Camel Club
David Baldacci · 2005
343
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence · 1915 · 5 lists
344
The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas · 2008
345
Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers · 1934
346
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer · 1999
347
Dear John
Nicholas Sparks · 2006
348
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier · 1997
349
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1966
350
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper · 1972
351
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy · 1899
352
Fearless Fourteen
Janet Evanovich · 2008
353
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne · 1766
354
The King of Torts
John Grisham · 2003
355
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman · 2008
356
The Quiet American
Graham Greene · 1940
357
The Chamber
John Grisham · 1994
358
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 1992
359
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson · 1994
360
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1940
361
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan · 1985
362
Cross Country
James Patterson · 2008
363
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré · 1963
364
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin · 1996
365
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough · 1977
366
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson · 1920
367
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary · 1981
368
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · 1954 · 3 lists
369
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1939
370
Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 1782
371
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally · 1982
372
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach · 1973
373
The Stand
Stephen King · 1978
374
The Last Juror
John Grisham · 2004
375
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1991
376
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier · 1999
377
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926
378
It
Stephen King · 1905
379
The Rainmaker
John Grisham · 1995
380
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998
381
The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks · 1980
382
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929
383
The Warden
Anthony Trollope · 1855
384
The Summons
John Grisham · 2002
385
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol · 1963
386
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · 2003
387
The Incredible Journey
Sheila Burnford · 1961
388
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende · 1998
389
Shirley
Charlotte Brontë · 1800 · 2 lists
390
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 1999
391
The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans · 1995
392
The Street Lawyer
John Grisham · 1998
393
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1969
394
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 1937
395
The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller · 1992
396
Anne of the Island
L.M. Montgomery · 1915
397
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck · 1961
398
The Shining
Stephen King · 1977
399
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë · 1847 · 2 lists
400
First Family
David Baldacci · 2009
401
The Partner
John Grisham · 1997
402
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2014 · 3 lists
403
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
Robert Louis Stevenson · 2019
404
The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells · 1885
405
The Choice
Nicholas Sparks · 2007
406
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
Owen Wister · 1902
407
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks · 1999
408
The Maze Runner
James Dashner · 2009
409
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin · 1978
410
Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry · 1824
411
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Jeff Kinney · 2009
412
King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard · 1885 · 2 lists
413
The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette
414
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson · 1980
415
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien · 1971
416
Misery
Stephen King · 1978
417
The Cider House Rules
John Irving · 1985
418
King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry · 1948
419
The Once and Future King
T.H. White · 1939
420
The Witches
Roald Dahl · 1983
421
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman · 1997
422
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · 2009
423
Carrie
Stephen King · 1974
424
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham · 1919
425
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron · 2006
426
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy · 1888
427
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434
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435
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437
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Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1943
438
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Sinclair Lewis · 1925
439
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440
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441
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442
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443
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444
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445
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446
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447
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J.K. Rowling · 2005
448
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449
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450
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451
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452
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453
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454
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455
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456
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John Green · 2005
457
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote · 1956
458
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W. Somerset Maugham · 1944
459
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Stephen King · 2001
460
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Virginia Woolf · 1928
461
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462
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463
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464
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465
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466
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467
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Jeff Kinney · 2002
468
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Kim Edwards · 2005
469
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Nicholas Sparks · 2003
470
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Fannie Flagg · 1987
471
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472
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473
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474
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475
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476
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477
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478
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Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
479
M.C. Higgins, The Great
Virginia Hamilton · 1974
480
Call It Courage
Armstrong Sperry · 1940
481
Go Set a Watchman
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482
Bleachers
John Grisham · 2003
483
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis · 2007
484
Swimsuit
James Patterson · 1997
485
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · 1963
486
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk · 1951
487
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene · 1948
488
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh · 1960
489
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler · 1948
490
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving · 1989
491
The God of Small Things
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492
The Associate
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493
The Shack
William P. Young · 2007
494
The Naked and the Dead
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495
The Sea of Monsters
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496
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein · 1961
497
Vision in White
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498
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Sid Fleischman · 1986
499
Room
Emma Donoghue · 2010
500
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