Fiction

#1

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

3386 upvotes

#2

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1335 upvotes

#3

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

980 upvotes

#4

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

910 upvotes

#5

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

893 upvotes

#6

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

720 upvotes

#7

I Know This Much Is True

Wally Lamb

709 upvotes

#8

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

703 upvotes

#9

The Collector

John Fowles

680 upvotes

#10

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (adult)

C. S. Lewis

672 upvotes

#11

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers

669 upvotes

#12

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino

617 upvotes

#13

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

587 upvotes

#14

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

585 upvotes

#15

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

562 upvotes

#16

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

500 upvotes

#17

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

444 upvotes

#18

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

443 upvotes

#19

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

432 upvotes

#20

The Trial

Franz Kafka

369 upvotes

#21

Sometimes I Lie

Alice Feeney

361 upvotes

#22

State of Fear

Michael Crichton

360 upvotes

#23

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

350 upvotes

#24

To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)

Harper Lee

345 upvotes

#25

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

342 upvotes

#26

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

328 upvotes

#27

Ulysses

James Joyce

292 upvotes

#28

The Futurological Congress (from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)

Stanisław Lem

289 upvotes

#29

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

Marcel Proust

284 upvotes

#30

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Illustrated Edition)

Neil Gaiman

260 upvotes

#31

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

242 upvotes

#32

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

239 upvotes

#33

The Margarets

Sheri S. Tepper

237 upvotes

#34

The Good Daughter

Karin Slaughter

237 upvotes

#35

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

214 upvotes

#36

Bird Box: free sampler (chapter 1)

Josh Malerman

207 upvotes

#37

Split Tooth

Tanya Tagaq

205 upvotes

#38

The Curse of Chalion

Lois McMaster Bujold

202 upvotes

#39

Hogfather

Terry Pratchett

201 upvotes

#40

The Italian

Ann Radcliffe

199 upvotes

#41

Microserfs

Douglas Coupland

198 upvotes

#42

Lord of the Silent

Elizabeth Peters

197 upvotes

#43

Monstrous Regiment

Terry Pratchett

197 upvotes

#44

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

192 upvotes

#45

Going Postal

Terry Pratchett

186 upvotes

#46

Lord Peter

Dorothy L. Sayers

181 upvotes

#47

The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

174 upvotes

#48

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein

164 upvotes

#49

Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett

164 upvotes

#50

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

163 upvotes

#51

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

162 upvotes

#52

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

154 upvotes

#53

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

150 upvotes

#54

Candide

Francois Voltaire

150 upvotes

#55

Sabriel (adult)

Garth Nix

144 upvotes

#56

Hidden Secrets

Cait London

141 upvotes

#57

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

138 upvotes

#58

Neuromancer

William Gibson

135 upvotes

#59

Pulp

Charles Bukowski

128 upvotes

#60

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

115 upvotes

#61

Equal Rites

Terry Pratchett

114 upvotes

#62

Horns

Joe Hill

113 upvotes

#63

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

112 upvotes

#64

Collected Stories

Vladimir Nabokov

108 upvotes

#65

The Child Finder

Rene Denfeld

105 upvotes

#66

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

103 upvotes

#67

Microbe Hunters

Paul De Kruif

102 upvotes

#68

My Year of Meats

Ruth Ozeki

94 upvotes

#69

Rock Paper Scissors

Alice Feeney

90 upvotes

#70

Heart-Shaped Box LP

Joe Hill

89 upvotes

#71

The Complete Broken Empire Trilogy: Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns, Emperor of Thorns

Mark Lawrence

86 upvotes

#72

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

86 upvotes

#73

Unrivalled (Beautiful Idols, Book 1)

Alyson Noël

83 upvotes

#74

The Guest List

Lucy Foley

82 upvotes

#75

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

81 upvotes

#76

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

81 upvotes

#77

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

80 upvotes

#78

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson

80 upvotes

#79

The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes

78 upvotes

#80

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

77 upvotes

#81

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

75 upvotes

#82

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

73 upvotes

#83

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

66 upvotes

#84

The Art of Racing in the Rain LP

Garth Stein

65 upvotes

#85

Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

Veronica Roth

63 upvotes

#86

Stardust

Neil Gaiman

63 upvotes

#87

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

63 upvotes

#88

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

57 upvotes

#89

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

57 upvotes

#90

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

52 upvotes

#91

The Castle

Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell

52 upvotes

#92

Bridgerton Collection Volume 2

Julia Quinn

49 upvotes

#93

All This and More

Peng Shepherd

45 upvotes

#94

Secret Rendezvous

Kobo Abe

45 upvotes

#95

Ahab's Wife

Sena Jeter Naslund

44 upvotes

#96

The Child Thief

Brom

44 upvotes

#97

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

William Burroughs

41 upvotes

#98

The Vagrant (The Vagrant Trilogy)

Peter Newman

41 upvotes

#99

Crossing to Safety

Wallace Stegner

41 upvotes

#100

The Fireman

Joe Hill

40 upvotes