Goodreads 20 Best Books Ever List

There are lot of lists on the internet and we will be lookingat some of them and seeing where our favorite books rank. Keep reading to find out Goodreads 20 best books ever list and see what books made the list!

With so many lists online, you can browse many that might be a waste of time. Goodreads has many lists and with so many votes, I know we can trust them.

And today, we are looking at Goodreads 20 best books ever. The list received over 100,000 votes, giving us a good sample size. The original list has 100 books but we decided to list only the top 20.

Goodreads 20 Best Books Ever List

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) by Stephenie Meyer
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) by Rick Riordan
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown

The Hunger Games Tops the List

And what a start we have to this. The first novel and officially deemed as the best book ever by this list is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. What I take away from this information is that this is a much younger demographic than I expected. But a little older and Harry potter would have come in first.

My guess is verified by the second book on the list, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling. The list finally starts making sense as the third novel on the list is Pride and Prejudice followed by To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book Thief.

But the list gets weird again as Twilight takes the 6^th spot. There is no reason for Twilight to be ranked higher than The Lord of the Rings trilogy. While this may infuriate many people, I already expected chaos when I saw The Hunger Games at the top of the list.

Conclusion

That is all for this list of Goodreads 20 best books ever list. There are many modern popular novels, letting us know the average age of the voters. What do you think of this list? Let us know in the comments below!

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