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The most-recommended fiction titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Animal Farm: George Orwell (Macmillan Collector's Library)
George Orwell · 1996
46 recommenders
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
Ayn Rand · 1999
44 recommenders
The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition
Paulo Coelho · 2014
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 2006
43 recommenders
Dune
Frank Herbert · 2019
40 recommenders
Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 2003
30 recommenders
Snow Crash: A Novel
Neal Stephenson · 2018
29 recommenders
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa · 2003
28 recommenders
Siddhartha: A Novel. Complete edition with original illustrations
Hermann Hesse · 1981
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2014
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett · 2012
27 recommenders
Harry Potter: the Complete Series
J. K. Rowling · 2007
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2014
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 2005
26 recommenders
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand · 1996
25 recommenders
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ray Porter · 2021
24 recommenders
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2001
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2006
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
The Odyssey
Homer and translated by Emily Wilson · 1999
The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1996
23 recommenders
The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien · 2005
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1998
Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Vladimir Nabokov · 1995
22 recommenders
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · 2011
21 recommenders
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 2014
20 recommenders
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 2003
19 recommenders
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2000
18 recommenders
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien · 2002
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 2006
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1998
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 2004
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 2005
17 recommenders
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1994
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 2003
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, illustrated by Nokman Poon · 2003
16 recommenders
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2019
The Iliad
Homer · 2023
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell · 2002
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott · 2004
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1995
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2000
15 recommenders
Catch-22: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury (Everyman's Library)
Joseph Heller · 2004
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card · 2004
Klara and the Sun: A Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1993
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 2002
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
14 recommenders
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2019
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 2019
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein · 1964
13 recommenders
Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)
Lewis Carroll · 2000
Exhalation
and Stories Of Your Life by Ted Chiang · 2019
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman · 1996
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2010
Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
Kiley Reid · 2019
The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway · 1996
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Shantaram: A Novel
Gregory David Roberts · 2004
A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel
John Kennedy Toole · 1994
12 recommenders
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2019
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1990
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2004
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1998
Song of Solomon: A Novel
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
Love in the Time of Choler a
Gabriel García Márquez · 2003
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 2002
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach · 2006
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970
11 recommenders
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition
Kurt Vonnegut · 1999
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1994
On The Road: A Traveler's Tale
and Big Sur by Jack Kerouac · 1976
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · 2015
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell · 1988
The Stand
Stephen King · 2021
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 2016
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
The Remains of The Day
and An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Lord of the Flies
William Golding, with a foreword by Stephen King · 1999
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein · 2005
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 2003
10 recommenders
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown · 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud · 1993
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1987
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 2006
Persuasion
Jane Austen, Barbara Heller · 2022
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019
