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Here at ŷ������ World Headquarters, we like to occasionally step back for a really high-altitude assessment of readers�� favorite books. The idea behind today’s collection: Identify the most popular books published over the past 100 years, as determined by ŷ������ members' digital shelves.
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To do this, we trawled through the most popular books on ŷ������ and sorted by publication date, from 1925 to 2024. Then we picked out one title from at or near the top of each year. We didn’t always grab the top book for a few reasons. Repeats, for one—some eras are very Agatha Christie, for instance. Other years had multiple good contenders for the top spot and we resorted to metaphorical arm wrestling to determine which book made it in.
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We’re looking to curate a list that covers a wide range of genres, topics, authors, and ideas. You’ll see several stone-cold classics, along with a few books you probably read in your high school English class. Click around a bit and you’ll find beloved children’s books, famous fantasy worlds, scary-as-hell horror stories, pioneering historical fiction, literary science fiction, old-school whodunits, and several international blockbusters. (Also, if you’re in that kind of mood, a good deal of existentialist dread and grim dystopian visions.)
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Scan the list in chronological order to get a sense of the zeitgeist passing, as told from the shelves of fellow readers. It’s a fascinating collection. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: ŷ������ members are interesting, widely read, devastatingly good-looking people. Click on the book cover images for more information about each title, and use that Want to Read button to add books to your own aspirational shelf.
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