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OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels

OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels is a ranked list published in 2019 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as editorial list. 159 of its 500 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

  1. 1Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes (1605)Canon #2
  2. 2Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll (1865)Canon #48
  3. 3The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain (1884)
  4. 4The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain (1876)Canon #126
  5. 5Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)Canon #75
  6. 6Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)Canon #5
  7. 7Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847)Canon #7
  8. 8Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)Canon #10
  9. 9Moby Dick — Herman Melville (1851)Canon #8
  10. 10The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)Canon #58
  11. 11Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift (1726)Canon #111
  12. 12The Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan (1678)Canon #152
  13. 13A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens (1843)Canon #105
  14. 14David Copperfield — Charles Dickens (1850)Canon #49
  15. 15A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens (1859)Canon #82
  16. 16Little Women — Louisa May Alcott (1868)Canon #33
  17. 17Great Expectations — Charles Dickens (1861)Canon #17
  18. 18The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again — J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
  19. 19Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus — Mary Shelley (1818)
  20. 20Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens (1838)Canon #107
  21. 21Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  22. 22Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)Canon #3
  23. 23Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial life — Gustave Flaubert (1857)
  24. 24The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)
  25. 25Dracula — Bram Stoker (1897)Canon #60
  26. 26The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas (1844)Canon #115
  27. 27Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932)Canon #38
  28. 28War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1869)
  29. 29To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee (1960)Canon #27
  30. 30The Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900)
  31. 31Les Misérables — Victor Hugo (1862)Canon #34
  32. 32The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
  33. 33Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945)Canon #37
  34. 34The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)Canon #19
  35. 35The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)Canon #35
  36. 36The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903)Canon #92
  37. 3720,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne (1870)
  38. 38Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1878)Canon #15
  39. 39The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame (1908)Canon #147
  40. 40The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890)Canon #73
  41. 41The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939)Canon #21
  42. 42Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811)Canon #157
  43. 43The Last of the Mohicans — James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
  44. 44Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy (1891)Canon #241
  45. 45Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — J.K. Rowling (1997)
  46. 46Heidi — Johanna Spyri (1880)
  47. 47Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)Canon #1
  48. 48The Complete Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)
  49. 49The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas (1846)Canon #54
  50. 50The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (1952)Canon #83
  51. 51The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis (1950)
  52. 52The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Victor Hugo (1831)
  53. 53Pinocchio — Carlo Collodi (1883)
  54. 54One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (1967)Canon #4
  55. 55Ivanhoe — Walter Scott (1819)Canon #158
  56. 56The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane (1895)Canon #150
  57. 57Anne of Green Gables — L.M. Montgomery (1908)Canon #222
  58. 58Black Beauty — Anna Sewell (1877)Canon #198
  59. 59Peter Pan — J.M. Barrie (1911)
  60. 60A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway (1929)Canon #117
  61. 61The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)Canon #160
  62. 62Lord of the Flies — William Golding (1954)Canon #100
  63. 63The Prince and the Pauper — Mark Twain (1881)
  64. 64A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce (1916)Canon #89
  65. 65Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad (1900)Canon #108
  66. 66Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — J.K. Rowling (1998)
  67. 67The Red & the Black — Stendhal (1830)Canon #28
  68. 68The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)Canon #67
  69. 69The Trial — Franz Kafka (1925)Canon #9
  70. 70Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H. Lawrence (1928)Canon #166
  71. 71Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  72. 72The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951)Canon #42
  73. 73Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (1953)
  74. 74A Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864)
  75. 75Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)Canon #39
  76. 76All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque (1929)Canon #123
  77. 77Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell (1936)Canon #47
  78. 78My Ántonia — Willa Cather (1918)Canon #199
  79. 79Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck (1937)Canon #130
  80. 80The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith (1766)Canon #120
  81. 81A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain (1889)
  82. 82White Fang — Jack London (1906)
  83. 83Fathers and Sons — Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1862)Canon #81
  84. 84Doctor Zhivago — Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1957)Canon #114
  85. 85The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio (1351)Canon #163
  86. 86Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell (1949)Canon #13
  87. 87The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (1906)Canon #172
  88. 88The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown (2003)
  89. 89Persuasion — Jane Austen (1818)Canon #57
  90. 90Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814)Canon #124
  91. 91Candide — Voltaire (1759)Canon #36
  92. 92For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway (1940)Canon #77
  93. 93Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy (1874)Canon #85
  94. 94The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
  95. 95The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878)Canon #232
  96. 96Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence (1913)Canon #51
  97. 97Charlotte's Web — E.B. White (1952)
  98. 98The Swiss Family Robinson — Johann David Wyss (1812)
  99. 99Bleak House — Charles Dickens (1853)Canon #44
  100. 100Père Goriot — Honoré de Balzac (1835)Canon #32
  101. 101Utopia — Thomas More (1516)
  102. 102The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding (1749)
  103. 103Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — J.K. Rowling (1999)
  104. 104Kim — Rudyard Kipling (1901)Canon #135
  105. 105The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)Canon #25
  106. 106Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J.K. Rowling (2000)
  107. 107The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot (1860)Canon #128
  108. 108A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
  109. 109The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)Canon #72
  110. 110The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
  111. 111The War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells (1898)Canon #125
  112. 112Middlemarch — George Eliot (1872)Canon #11
  113. 113The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton (1920)Canon #153
  114. 114The Color Purple — Alice Walker (1982)Canon #159
  115. 115Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1818)Canon #174
  116. 116East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952)
  117. 117On the Road — Jack Kerouac (1957)Canon #86
  118. 118Catch-22 — Joseph Heller (1961)Canon #56
  119. 119Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne (1873)Canon #175
  120. 120Hard Times — Charles Dickens (1854)Canon #132
  121. 121Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)Canon #29
  122. 122Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf (1925)Canon #18
  123. 123To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (1927)Canon #23
  124. 124The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis (1955)
  125. 125Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — J.K. Rowling (2003)
  126. 126The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway (1926)Canon #250
  127. 127The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (1931)
  128. 128Silas Marner — George Eliot (1861)Canon #122
  129. 129Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez (1985)Canon #110
  130. 130Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier (1938)Canon #109
  131. 131Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy (1895)Canon #78
  132. 132Twilight — Stephenie Meyer (2005)
  133. 133A Passage to India — E.M. Forster (1924)Canon #71
  134. 134The Plague — Albert Camus (1947)Canon #118
  135. 135Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Dickens (1839)Canon #245
  136. 136The Pearl — John Steinbeck (1947)
  137. 137Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton (1911)
  138. 138The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu (1021)Canon #22
  139. 139The Giver — Lois Lowry (1993)
  140. 140The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho (1988)
  141. 141The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  142. 142Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719)Canon #55
  143. 143Tender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)Canon #156
  144. 144The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1869)Canon #65
  145. 145Hatchet — Gary Paulsen (1986)
  146. 146The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (2003)
  147. 147One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Ken Kesey (1962)
  148. 148The Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)Canon #62
  149. 149The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton (1967)
  150. 150Ben-Hur — Lew Wallace (1880)
  151. 151The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy (1886)Canon #103
  152. 152Cry, The Beloved Country — Alan Paton (1948)Canon #209
  153. 153The Last Battle — C.S. Lewis (1956)
  154. 154Captains Courageous — Rudyard Kipling (1897)
  155. 155The Castle — Franz Kafka (1926)Canon #76
  156. 156The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (1915)
  157. 157The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) — Thomas Mann (1924)
  158. 158James and the Giant Peach — Roald Dahl (1961)
  159. 159The Horse and His Boy — C.S. Lewis (1954)
  160. 160Angels & Demons — Dan Brown (2000)
  161. 161The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — C.S. Lewis (1952)
  162. 162The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath (1963)Canon #216
  163. 163Women in Love — D.H. Lawrence (1920)Canon #90
  164. 164The Yearling — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938)
  165. 165O Pioneers! — Willa Cather (1913)
  166. 166The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood (1985)Canon #191
  167. 167The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868)Canon #99
  168. 168The Old Curiosity Shop — Charles Dickens (1841)
  169. 169Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens (1857)
  170. 170Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia — C.S. Lewis (1951)
  171. 171Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser (1900)Canon #161
  172. 172The Silver Chair — C.S. Lewis (1953)
  173. 173The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins (2008)
  174. 174This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
  175. 175Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de Balzac (1833)Canon #138
  176. 176Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham (1915)Canon #213
  177. 177Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin (1791)
  178. 178Life of Pi — Yann Martel (2001)
  179. 179Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — J.K. Rowling (2007)
  180. 180Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)Canon #20
  181. 181Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse (1927)Canon #215
  182. 182The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)Canon #30
  183. 183Bridge to Terabithia — Katherine Paterson (1977)
  184. 184The Invisible Man — H.G. Wells (1897)
  185. 185Holes — Louis Sachar (1998)
  186. 186Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (1922)
  187. 187A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith (1943)
  188. 188Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There — Lewis Carroll (1872)Canon #194
  189. 189In Cold Blood — Truman Capote (1966)
  190. 190The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende (1982)
  191. 191Adam Bede — George Eliot (1859)Canon #140
  192. 192The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni (1827)Canon #133
  193. 193The Book Thief — Markus Zusak (2006)
  194. 194Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston (1937)Canon #63
  195. 195One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1962)Canon #218
  196. 196The Sea Wolf — Jack London (1904)
  197. 197Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins (2009)
  198. 198Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry — Mildred D. Taylor (1976)
  199. 199Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather (1927)
  200. 200The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton (1905)Canon #129
  201. 201Light in August — William Faulkner (1932)
  202. 202The Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens (1837)Canon #249
  203. 203Remembrance of Things Past — Marcel Proust (1913)Canon #102
  204. 204Barchester Towers and the Warden — Anthony Trollope (1857)
  205. 205The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Thornton Wilder (1927)
  206. 206The Help — Kathryn Stockett (2009)
  207. 207Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie (1934)
  208. 208The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold (2002)
  209. 209The Appeal — John Grisham (2008)
  210. 210Dombey And Son — Charles Dickens (1848)
  211. 211Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  212. 212An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser (1925)Canon #223
  213. 213The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison (1970)Canon #247
  214. 214Little House In the Big Woods — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
  215. 215Pippi Longstocking — Astrid Lindgren (1945)Canon #168
  216. 216Germinal — Émile Zola (1885)Canon #106
  217. 217The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers (1940)
  218. 218The Woman In White — Wilkie Collins (1860)Canon #79
  219. 219Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner (1936)Canon #70
  220. 220A Painted House — John Grisham (2001)
  221. 221The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson (2005)
  222. 222A Room With a View — E.M. Forster (1908)Canon #224
  223. 223Watership Down — Richard Adams (1972)
  224. 224Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden (1997)
  225. 225Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens (1865)
  226. 226Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis (1922)Canon #173
  227. 227The Red Pony — John Steinbeck (1937)
  228. 228All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren (1946)
  229. 229Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (1958)Canon #16
  230. 230Lorna Doone — R.D. Blackmore (1869)
  231. 231Johnny Tremain — Esther Forbes (1943)
  232. 232Anne of Avonlea — L.M. Montgomery (1909)
  233. 233Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt (1975)
  234. 234The BFG — Roald Dahl (1982)
  235. 235Cannery Row — John Steinbeck (1945)
  236. 236The Joy Luck Club — Amy Tan (1989)
  237. 237The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien (1977)
  238. 238Roots — Alex Haley (1976)
  239. 239Little House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935)
  240. 240Native Son — Richard Wright (1940)Canon #176
  241. 241Stuart Little — E.B. White (1945)
  242. 242Cross Fire — James Patterson (2010)
  243. 243The Power and the Glory — Graham Greene (1940)Canon #179
  244. 244A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess (1962)Canon #243
  245. 245The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux (1910)
  246. 246The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury (1950)
  247. 247The Road — Cormac McCarthy (2006)Canon #190
  248. 248The Way of All Flesh — Samuel Butler (1903)Canon #181
  249. 249Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul — Jeff Kinney (2014)
  250. 250Villette — Charlotte Brontë (1853)
  251. 251The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time — Mark Haddon (2003)
  252. 252The Mysterious Island — Jules Verne (1875)
  253. 253Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison (1977)Canon #192
  254. 254Nana — Émile Zola (1880)
  255. 255Quo Vadis — Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896)
  256. 256Main Street — Sinclair Lewis (1920)Canon #242
  257. 257Matilda — Roald Dahl (1988)
  258. 258Lolita — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1955)Canon #24
  259. 259Paper Towns — John Green (1908)
  260. 260Sounder — William H. Armstrong (1969)
  261. 261Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret — Judy Blume (1970)
  262. 262The Notebook — Nicholas Sparks (1996)
  263. 263From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — E.L. Konigsburg (1967)
  264. 264Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand (1957)
  265. 265The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand (1943)
  266. 266Number the Stars — Lois Lowry (1989)
  267. 267The Firm — John Grisham (1991)
  268. 268Swann's Way — Marcel Proust (1913)
  269. 269Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card (1985)
  270. 270The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco (1980)Canon #116
  271. 271A Time to Kill — John Grisham (1989)
  272. 272Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen (2006)
  273. 273The Time Machine — H.G. Wells (1895)Canon #208
  274. 274Eragon — Christopher Paolini (2002)
  275. 275The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams (1979)Canon #248
  276. 276Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann (1901)Canon #68
  277. 277A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini (2007)
  278. 278The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Elizabeth George Speare (1958)
  279. 279And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie (1939)
  280. 280A Separate Peace — John Knowles (1959)
  281. 281Breaking Dawn — Stephenie Meyer (2008)
  282. 282As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner (1930)Canon #221
  283. 283The Girl Who Played With Fire — Stieg Larsson (2009)
  284. 284Where the Red Fern Grows — Wilson Rawls (1961)
  285. 285Le Morte D'Arthur — Thomas Malory (1485)
  286. 286Mockingjay — Suzanne Collins (2010)
  287. 287The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett (1989)
  288. 288Persian Letters — Montesquieu (1721)
  289. 289The Client — John Grisham (1993)
  290. 290Sula — Toni Morrison (1973)
  291. 291Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing — Judy Blume (1972)
  292. 292The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown In Nottinghamshire — Howard Pyle (1883)
  293. 293Tortilla Flat — John Steinbeck (1935)
  294. 294Look Homeward, Angel — Thomas Wolfe (1929)
  295. 295The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Charles Dickens (1870)
  296. 296Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  297. 297The Pelican Brief — John Grisham (1992)
  298. 298Atonement — Ian McEwan (2001)Canon #136
  299. 299Washington Square — Henry James (1880)
  300. 300Like Water for Chocolate — Laura Esquivel (1989)
  301. 301The Golden Compass — Philip Pullman (1995)
  302. 302The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd (2001)
  303. 303The Fault In Our Stars — John Green (2012)
  304. 304Nostromo — Joseph Conrad (1904)Canon #43
  305. 305Finnegans Wake — James Joyce (1939)
  306. 306The Brethren — John Grisham (2000)
  307. 307Coraline — Neil Gaiman (2002)
  308. 308Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad (1902)
  309. 309On the Banks of Plum Creek — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1937)
  310. 310Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm — Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
  311. 311The Ambassadors — Henry James (1903)Canon #97
  312. 312The Secret Agent — Joseph Conrad (1907)Canon #197
  313. 313The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros (1984)
  314. 314Go Tell It on the Mountain — James Baldwin (1953)Canon #196
  315. 315The Testament — John Grisham (1999)
  316. 316The Clan of the Cave Bear — Jean M. Auel (1980)
  317. 317Cranford — Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1853)Canon #119
  318. 318Because of Winn-Dixie — Kate DiCamillo (2000)
  319. 319My Side of the Mountain — Jean Craighead George (1959)
  320. 320The Runaway Jury — John Grisham (1996)
  321. 321The Mouse and the Motorcycle — Beverly Cleary (1965)
  322. 322The Lost Symbol — Dan Brown (2009)
  323. 323The Forsyte Saga — John Galsworthy (1922)
  324. 324Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn (2012)
  325. 325The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan (2005)
  326. 326The Last Days of Pompeii — Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)
  327. 327The Reader — Bernhard Schlink (1995)
  328. 328Caddie Woodlawn — Carol Ryrie Brink (1935)
  329. 329The Tale of Despereaux — Kate DiCamillo (2003)
  330. 330The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest — Stieg Larsson (2007)
  331. 331Dear Mr. Henshaw — Beverly Cleary (1983)
  332. 332The Killer Angels — Michael Shaara (1974)
  333. 333Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel García Márquez (1981)
  334. 334The Five People You Meet In Heaven — Mitch Albom (2003)
  335. 335The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)Canon #121
  336. 336Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  337. 337P Is for Peril — Sue Grafton (2001)
  338. 338My Sister's Keeper — Jodi Picoult (2004)
  339. 339Barnaby Rudge — Charles Dickens (1841)
  340. 340Howards End — E.M. Forster (1910)Canon #202
  341. 341The Broker — John Grisham (2005)
  342. 342The Camel Club — David Baldacci (2005)
  343. 343The Rainbow — D.H. Lawrence (1915)Canon #95
  344. 344The Man In the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  345. 345Mary Poppins — P.L. Travers (1934)
  346. 346Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer (2001)
  347. 347Dear John — Nicholas Sparks (2007)
  348. 348Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier (1997)
  349. 349Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (1966)
  350. 350The Dark Is Rising — Susan Cooper (1973)
  351. 351Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy (1899)
  352. 352Fearless Fourteen — Janet Evanovich (2008)
  353. 353A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy — Laurence Sterne (1768)
  354. 354The King of Torts — John Grisham (2003)
  355. 355The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman (2008)
  356. 356The Quiet American — Graham Greene (1955)
  357. 357The Chamber — John Grisham (1994)
  358. 358The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje (1992)
  359. 359Snow Falling on Cedars — David Guterson (1994)
  360. 360The Long Winter — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940)
  361. 361Sarah, Plain and Tall — Patricia MacLachlan (1985)
  362. 362Cross Country — James Patterson (2008)
  363. 363The Spy Who Came In from the Cold — John Le Carré (1963)
  364. 364A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin (1996)
  365. 365The Thorn Birds — Colleen McCullough (1977)
  366. 366Old Yeller — Fred Gipson (1956)
  367. 367Ramona Quimby, Age 8 — Beverly Cleary (1981)
  368. 368Death In Venice — Thomas Mann (1912)
  369. 369By the Shores of Silver Lake — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1939)
  370. 370Inferno — Dan Brown (2013)
  371. 371Schindler's List — Thomas Keneally (1993)
  372. 372Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach (1970)
  373. 373The Stand — Stephen King (1978)
  374. 374The Last Juror — John Grisham (2004)
  375. 375Shiloh — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1991)
  376. 376Girl With a Pearl Earring — Tracy Chevalier (1999)
  377. 377The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie (1926)Canon #151
  378. 378It — Stephen King (1986)
  379. 379The Rainmaker — John Grisham (1995)
  380. 380The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
  381. 381The Indian in the Cupboard — Lynne Reid Banks (1980)
  382. 382The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  383. 383The Warden — Anthony Trollope (1855)
  384. 384The Summons — John Grisham (2002)
  385. 385Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective — Donald J. Sobol (1963)
  386. 386The Time Traveler's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
  387. 387The Incredible Journey — Sheila Burnford (1961)
  388. 388Daughter of Fortune — Isabel Allende (1998)
  389. 389Shirley — Charlotte Brontë (1849)Canon #246
  390. 390Bud, Not Buddy — Christopher Paul Curtis (1999)
  391. 391The Horse Whisperer — Nicholas Evans (1995)
  392. 392The Street Lawyer — John Grisham (1998)
  393. 393Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
  394. 394To Have and Have Not — Ernest Hemingway (1937)
  395. 395The Bridges of Madison County — Robert James Waller (1992)
  396. 396Anne of the Island — L.M. Montgomery (1915)
  397. 397The Winter of Our Discontent — John Steinbeck (1961)
  398. 398The Shining — Stephen King (1977)
  399. 399The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë (1848)
  400. 400First Family — David Baldacci (2009)
  401. 401The Partner — John Grisham (1997)
  402. 402The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins (2015)
  403. 403The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses — Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
  404. 404The Rise of Silas Lapham — William Dean Howells (1885)
  405. 405The Choice — Nicholas Sparks (2007)
  406. 406The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains — Owen Wister (1902)
  407. 407A Walk to Remember — Nicholas Sparks (1999)
  408. 408The Maze Runner — James Dashner (2009)
  409. 409The Westing Game — Ellen Raskin (1978)
  410. 410Misty of Chincoteague — Marguerite Henry (1947)
  411. 411Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw — Jeff Kinney (2009)
  412. 412King Solomon's Mines — H. Rider Haggard (1885)
  413. 413The Princess of Cleves — Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayett (1678)Canon #219
  414. 414Jacob Have I Loved — Katherine Paterson (1980)
  415. 415Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH — Robert C. O'Brien (1971)
  416. 416Misery — Stephen King (1987)
  417. 417The Cider House Rules — John Irving (1985)
  418. 418King of the Wind — Marguerite Henry (1948)
  419. 419The Once and Future King — T. H. White (1958)
  420. 420The Witches — Roald Dahl (1983)
  421. 421The Subtle Knife — Philip Pullman (1997)
  422. 422When You Reach Me — Rebecca Stead (2009)
  423. 423Carrie — Stephen King (1974)
  424. 424The Moon and Sixpence — W. Somerset Maugham (1919)
  425. 425The Higher Power of Lucky — Susan Patron (2006)
  426. 426Looking Backward, 2000-1887 — Edward Bellamy (1888)
  427. 427The Wings of the Dove — Henry James (1902)Canon #214
  428. 428The Summer of the Swans — Betsy Cromer Byars (1970)
  429. 429Dangerous Liaisons — Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
  430. 430Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton (1990)
  431. 431The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian — Sherman Alexie (2007)
  432. 432The Grey King — Susan Cooper (1975)
  433. 433The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)Canon #170
  434. 434The Mammoth Hunters — Jean M. Auel (1985)
  435. 435The Trumpet of the Swan — E.B. White (1970)
  436. 436The Lucky One — Nicholas Sparks (2008)
  437. 437These Happy Golden Years — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1943)
  438. 438Arrowsmith — Sinclair Lewis (1925)
  439. 439Julie of the Wolves — Jean Craighead George (1972)
  440. 440The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis (1942)
  441. 441The Fall — Albert Camus (1956)
  442. 442The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency — Alexander McCall Smith (1998)
  443. 443Worst Case — James Patterson (2010)
  444. 444Lost Horizon — James Hilton (1933)
  445. 445The Gunslinger — Stephen King (1982)
  446. 446The Slave Dancer — Paula Fox (1973)
  447. 447Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — J.K. Rowling (2005)
  448. 448Inkheart — Cornelia Funke (2003)
  449. 449Ramona and her Father — Beverly Cleary (1977)
  450. 450Inkspell — Cornelia Funke (2005)
  451. 451Ramona the Pest — Beverly Cleary (1968)
  452. 452Walk Two Moons — Sharon Creech (1994)
  453. 453Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — Ransom Riggs (2011)
  454. 454The Chocolate War — Robert Cormier (1974)
  455. 455Sophie's Choice — William Styron (1979)
  456. 456Looking for Alaska — John Green (2005)
  457. 457Breakfast at Tiffany's — Truman Capote (1958)
  458. 458The Razor's Edge — W. Somerset Maugham (1944)
  459. 459Dreamcatcher — Stephen King (2001)
  460. 460Orlando — Virginia Woolf (1928)Canon #164
  461. 461The Things they Carried — Tim O'Brien (1990)
  462. 462Little Town on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder (1941)
  463. 463Nights in Rodanthe — Nicholas Sparks (2002)
  464. 464The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman (2000)
  465. 465The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane — Kate DiCamillo (2006)
  466. 466Flatland — Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
  467. 467Diary of a Wimpy Kid — Jeff Kinney (2007)
  468. 468The Memory Keeper's Daughter — Kim Edwards (2005)
  469. 469The Wedding — Nicholas Sparks (2003)
  470. 470Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe — Fannie Flagg (1987)
  471. 471The Cricket in Times Square — George Selden (1960)
  472. 472The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster (1961)
  473. 473Rob Roy — Walter Scott (1817)
  474. 474The Death of Ivan Ilych — Leo Tolstoy (1886)
  475. 475Alex Cross's Trial — James Patterson (2009)
  476. 476Kenilworth — Walter Scott (1821)
  477. 477The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne (1759)
  478. 478The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
  479. 479M.C. Higgins, The Great — Virginia Hamilton (1974)
  480. 480Call It Courage — Armstrong Sperry (1940)
  481. 481Go Set a Watchman — Harper Lee (2015)
  482. 482Bleachers — John Grisham (2003)
  483. 483Elijah of Buxton — Christopher Paul Curtis (2007)
  484. 484Swimsuit — James Patterson (2009)
  485. 485Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  486. 486The Caine Mutiny — Herman Wouk (1951)
  487. 487The Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene (1948)
  488. 488Harriet, the Spy — Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
  489. 489Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler (1940)
  490. 490A Prayer for Owen Meany — John Irving (1989)Canon #201
  491. 491The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy (1997)
  492. 492The Associate — John Grisham (2009)
  493. 493The Shack — William P. Young (2007)
  494. 494The Naked and the Dead — Norman Mailer (1948)
  495. 495The Sea of Monsters — Rick Riordan (2006)
  496. 496Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
  497. 497Vision in White — Nora Roberts (2009)
  498. 498The Whipping Boy — Sid Fleischman (1986)
  499. 499Room — Emma Donoghue (2010)
  500. 500Deception Point — Dan Brown (2001)

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.