Monday, July 14, 2014

Book List: Most Powerful Books

I came across this list when reading Book Riot and thought I'd give it a go with how many I've read. 9 out of 35 - eesh. I need to read more it seems! How many have you read?

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (123 votes)
  2. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (59)
  3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (54)
  4. 1984 by George Orwell (38)
  5. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (36)
  6. The Bible (33)
  7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (30)
  8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (30)
  9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (28)
  10. Beloved by Toni Morrison (27)
  11. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (25)
  12. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (20)
  13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (19)
  14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (19)
  15. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (18)
  16. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (18)
  17. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (18)
  18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (18)
  19. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (18)
  20. The Giver by Lois Lowry (17)
  21. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (17)
  22. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (16)
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (16)
  24. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (16)
  25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (15)
  26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (15)
  27. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (14)
  28. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (14)
  29. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (14)
  30. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (14)
  31. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (14)
  32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (14)
  33. Night by Elie Wiesel (14)
  34. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (13)
  35. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (13)

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