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This list is devoted to books from the top 5 lists on goodreads - on their first five pages - so from 1 to 500, that have less than 80,000 ratings.
See Popular Lists:
1. Best Books Ever
2. Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
3. Best Young Adult Books
4. Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
5. Best Books of the 20th Century
If you add a book to this list, I'd appreciate a comment indicating where you saw it.
Lists for all books by Number of Ratings:
80,000 to 89,999, 90,000 to 99,999, 100,000 to 149,999, 150,000 to 199,999,
200,000 to 499,999, 500,000 to 999,999, 1,000,000 and more
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See also: Under Rated Books with 1000 to 10000 ratings
See Popular Lists:
1. Best Books Ever
2. Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
3. Best Young Adult Books
4. Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
5. Best Books of the 20th Century
If you add a book to this list, I'd appreciate a comment indicating where you saw it.
Lists for all books by Number of Ratings:
80,000 to 89,999, 90,000 to 99,999, 100,000 to 149,999, 150,000 to 199,999,
200,000 to 499,999, 500,000 to 999,999, 1,000,000 and more
Related Lists By Topic:
All, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biography, Biology, Children, Classics, Computer Science, Fantasy, Genetics, Graphic Novels, History, Horror, Language, Manga, Military Science Fiction, Music, Mysteries, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Travel, Young Adult
See also: Under Rated Books with 1000 to 10000 ratings
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55 voters ·
list created January 4th, 2019
by Mitchell Friedman (votes) .
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The Raven now has 80,000 ratings and has been removed from this list, and added to 80,000 ratings list
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich now has 80,000 ratings and has been removed from this list, and added to 80,000 ratings list
So it is interesting to me how a book gets on the first 5 pages of the most popular lists on goodreads without a very large number of ratings. Clearly there are some patterns that explain some of these books - collections of well known works that are highly thought of like Shakespeare, major religious books that people don't necessarily think to rank, major philosophy books for the same reason. Even slightly less popular very popular books like Sophie's Choice. I'm more interested in hearing about those others books. So if you know the story behind say the books of Ki Longfellow or Tim Butcher, let me know what it is in this comment stream.
The Art of Happiness and The Chosen and Stormbreaker and The Thief Lord and Ivanhoe and Old Yeller and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassnow have 80,000 ratings and have been removed from this list, and added to the 80,000 ratings list
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West and The Gift of the Magi and Nausea and The Killer Angels and Doctor Zhivago and The House at Pooh Corner and The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories and The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson and The Power of One and Native Son and Infinite Jest and Holy Bible: New International Version and The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ and The Elements of Style and Dead Poets Society and The Epic of Gilgamesh and Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin now have more than 80,000 ratings and have been removed from this list
Again I see standouts without any explanation that I can figure out - R D Ronald's The Elephant Tree and The Zombie Room
There has been some recent odd voting on this and other lists that I watch. I'm fairly certain that the first 17 books on this list have been voted in a block and are probably all here in error as they were in the first list I cleaned up.
Best Books Ever87 - The Elephant Tree - 42k
91 - The Zombie Room - 42k
114 - A Story of Yesterday 21k
198 - The Addiction Manifesto - 1k
208 - The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr - 9k
270 - Requiem for a Dream - 66k
273 - The Killer Inside Me - 27k
280 - Galveston - 18k
288 - High-Rise - 40k
289 - L.A. Confidential 38k
291 - The Winter of Frankie Machine - 15k
295 - The Tesseract - 9k
296 - Audition - 21k
299 - Angels Fall - 55k
302 - The Secret Magdalene - 4k
304 - Libra - 22k
305 - Tokyo: The Devil of Nanking - 14k
307 - American Tabloid - 22k
310 - Kill Your Friends - 13k
313 - Savages - 23k
314 - City of God - 4k
315 - Last Exit to Brooklyn - 31k
318 - Layer Cake - 4k
321 - Clockers - 11k
325 - Penance - 48k
328 - A Simple Plan - 35k
329 - Winter's Bone - 41k
331 - The Chain Between Worlds - 1k
344 - Crash - 31k
349 - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - 42k
386 - Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart - 12k
395 - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - 57k
401 - Flow Down Like Silver - 4k
454 - The Complete Novels of Jane Austen - 34k
470 - Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master - 34k
481 - القرآن الكريم - 72k
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once39 - Tolkien On Fairy-stories - 4k
45 - The Elephant Tree - 42k
52 - The Zombie Room - 42k
91 - A Story of Yesterday - 21k
115 - Brainwalker - 10k
152 - Book of a Thousand Days - 56k
164 - Forever... - 67k
192 - Shadowland - 71k
199 - Blood and Chocolate - 44k
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376 - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - 57k
416 - The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War - 4k
423 - Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For - 27k
431 - Johnny Got His Gun - 49k
441 - Common Sense - 39k
448 - The Polymorph - 18k
451 - Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece - 15k
456 - Silent Spring - 55k
457 - Viciously Yours - 45k
462 - Taming Flame - 16k
468 - Think Twice - 50k
476 - Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit - 1k
477 - Not Forever, But For Now - 5k
487 - Head Like a Hole - 5k
488 - Life Application Study Bible: NIV - 24k
492 - The Oldest Dance - 13k
493 - The High Auction - 16k
494 - The Roommate - 13k
498 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death - 77k
Books to be removed for having over 80,000 ratings:The House of Mirth, Tithe, The Thief, Dealing with Dragons, Esperanza Rising, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Running with Scissors, Bride, Infidel, Cyrano de Bergerac, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Wings, Dreamland, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Disgrace, Ficciones, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend, Leaves of Grass, Revolutionary Road, Letters to a Young Poet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hiroshima, A Passage to India, The Crying of Lot 49, The Maltese Falcon, White Noise, Song of Solomon, Sophie’s Choice
The Lottery and Other Stories, Not in Love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, Wake, Impulse, Evernight, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, My Side of the Mountain, Wild Magic, Till We Have Faces, Faust, First Part
Best Young Adult Books100 - The Chain Between Worlds 1k
115 - Brainwalker - 10k
152 - Book of a Thousand Days - 56k
164 - Forever... - 67k
192 - Shadowland - 71k
199 - Blood and Chocolate - 44k
203 - Feed - 68k
204 - Jacob Have I Loved - 36k
207 - All-American Girl - 70k
219 - The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 - 71k
227 - The Black Stallion - 75k
235 - The Warrior Heir - 55k
237 - The Luxe - 74k
243 - Keeping the Moon - 69k
248 - On the Jellicoe Road - 51k
249 - Julie of the Wolves - 61k
251 - Need - 64k
252 - Weetzie Bat - 15k
258 - East - 46k
260 - The Devil's Arithmetic - 62k
265 - The Chocolate War - 47k
266 - Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial - 75k
270 - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - 50k
271 - Peeps - 75k
272 - The Looking Glass Wars - 47k
279 - Tangerine - 33k
283 - Isle of Winds - 1k
285 - The Archon of Peace - 415
286 - Sloppy Firsts - 36k
287 - King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian - 27k
291 - The Face on the Milk Carton - 65k
298 - Catherine, Called Birdy - 43k
299 - Savvy - 49k
300 - Tiger's Curse - 67k
Best Books of the 20th Century126 - The Waste Land - 59k
174 - Swann’s Way - 69k
190 - Gravity’s Rainbow - 48k
210 - The Tin Drum - 46k
215 - Foucault’s Pendulum - 75k
221 - I, Claudius - 73k
222 - The Magus - 64k
223 - Absalom, Absalom! - 48k
225 - All the King's Men - 66k
241 - Silent Spring - 55k
245 - A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - 50k
249 - Cry, the Beloved Country - 79k
255 - The Razor’s Edge - 54k
256 - Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer - 18k









