Top 100 Favorite Books

I love lists. I love books. OMG I love lists of books.

When I saw this list on Jenni Elyse’s blog I had to do it too.  Facebook released an analysis of the “10 books that have stayed with you” meme and listed the top 100 books that people chose.  So of course I had to write a post and see how many I’ve read.  The percentages are how many people mentioned these books out of the 130,000+ people that participated.

Bolded titles are the ones I’ve read. (Updated on November 17, 2017)

1. The Harry Potter series—J.K. Rowling (21.08%)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee (14.48%)
3. The Lord of the Rings—JRR Tolkien (13.86%)
4. The Hobbit—JRR Tolkien (7.48%)
5. Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen (7.28%)
6. The Holy Bible (7.21%)
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—Douglas Adams (5.97%)
8. The Hunger Games trilogy—Suzanne Collins (5.82%)
9. The Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger (5.70%)
10. The Chronicles of Narnia—C.S. Lewis (5.63%)
11. The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald (5.61%)
12. 1984—George Orwell (5.37%)
13. Little Women—Louisa May Alcott (5.26%)
14. Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte (5.23%)
15. The Stand—Stephen King (5.11%)
16. Gone with the Wind—Margaret Mitchell (4.95%)
17. A Wrinkle in Time—Madeleine L’Engle (4.38%)
18. The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood (4.27%)
19. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe—C.S. Lewis (4.05%)
20. The Alchemist—Paulo Coelho (4.01%)
21. Anne of Green Gables—L.M. Montgomery (3.95%)
22. The Giver—Lois Lowry (3.53%)
23. The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini (3.67%)
24. Ender’s Game—Orson Scott Card (3.53%)
25. The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver (3.39%)
26. Lord of the Flies—William Golding (3.38%)
27. The Eye of the World—Robert Jordan (3.38%)
28. The Book Thief—Markus Zusak (3.32%)
29. Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte (3.26%)
30. Hamlet—William Shakespeare (3.22%)
31. The Little Prince—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (3.21%)
32. Sherlock Holmes—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (3.15%)
33. Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury (3.15%)
34. Animal Farm—George Orwell (3.12%)
35. The Book of Mormon (3.08%)
36. The Diary of Anne Frank—Anne Frank (3.05%)
37. Dune—Frank Herbert (3.02%)
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2.98%)
39. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2.83%)
40. Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck (2.78%)
41. The Giving Tree—Shel Silverstein (2.72%)
42. The Fault in Our Stars—John Green (2.68%)
43. On the Road—Jack Kerouac (2.68%)
44. Lamb—Christopher Moore (2.58%)
45. Slaughterhouse-Five—Kurt Vonnegut (2.54%)
46. A Prayer for Owen Meany—John Irving (2.53%)
47. Good Omens—Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (2.52%)
48. The Help—Kathryn Stockett (2.45%)
49. The Outsiders—S.E. Hinton (2.44%)
50. American Gods—Neil Gaiman (2.42%)
51. Where the Red Fern Grows—Wilson Rawls (2.41%)
52. Stranger in a Strange Land—Robert Heinlein (2.39%)
53. The Secret Garden—Frances Hodgson Burnett (2.38%)
54. Little House on the Prairie—Laura Ingalls Wilder (2.35%)
55. The Count of Monte Cristo—Alexandre Dumas (2.31%)
56. The Pillars of the Earth—Ken Follett (2.31%)
57. The Da Vinci Code—Dan Brown (2.29%)
58. Brave New World—Aldous Huxley (2.24%)
59. A Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens (2.21%)
60. Les Miserables—Victor Hugo (2.21%)
61. Great Expectations—Charles Dickens (2.16%)
62. Night—Elie Wiesel (2.12%)
63. The Dark Tower series—Stephen King (2.12%)
64. Outlander—Diana Gabaldon (2.07%)
65. The Color Purple—Alice Walker (1.92%)
66. A Thousand Splendid Suns—Khaled Hosseini (1.89%)
67. The Art of War—Sun Tzu (1.88%)
68. Catch-22—Joseph Heller (1.85%)
69. The Bell Jar—Sylvia Plath (1.85%)
70. The Perks of Being a Wallflower—Stephen Chbosky (1.83%)
71. The Old Man and the Sea—Ernest Hemingway (1.78%)
72. Memoirs of a Geisha—Arthur Golden (1.76%)
73. Tuesdays with Morrie—Mitch Albom (1.75%)
74. The Road—Cormac McCarthy (1.73%)
75. Watership Down—Richard Adams (1.72%)
76. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—Betty Smith (1.72%)
77. Where the Sidewalk Ends—Shel Silverstein (1.68%)
78. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—Stieg Larsson (1.65%)
79. A Song of Ice and Fire—George R. R. Martin (1.65%)
80. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret—Judy Blume (1.65%)
81. Charlotte’s Web—E.B. White (1.64%)
82. The Time Traveler’s Wife—Audrey Niffenegger (1.63%)
83. Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy (1.62%)
84. Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1.62%)
85. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain (1.61%)
86. The Shack—William P. Young (1.58%)
87. Watchmen—Alan Moore (1.56%)
88. Interview with the Vampire—Anne Rice (1.55%)
89. The Odyssey—Homer (1.54%)
90. The House of the Spirits—Isabel Allende (1.54%)
91. The Stranger—Albert Camus (1.63%)
92. The Call of the Wild—Jack London (1.63%)
93. The Five People You Meet in Heaven—Mitch Albom (1.63%)
94. Siddhartha—Herman Hesse (1.63%)
95. East of Eden—John Steinbeck (1.50%)
96. Matilda—Roald Dahl (1.50%)
97. The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde (1.49%)
98. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—Robert Pirsig (1.47%)
99. Love in the Time of Cholera—Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1.45%)
100. Where the Wild Things Are—Maurice Sendak (1.45%)

TOTAL: 41

I was tagged for this meme and here’s the list that I wrote.  I bolded the ones that made the top 100 list.

My Top 10 Books that Have Stuck With Me

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
• A Lasting Peace by Carol Lynn Pearson
• Power of Habit by Charles Duhig
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Quiet by Susan Cain

If you did these meme on Facebook, your blog or anywhere leave me the link or the list.  I love seeing the books that have stuck with people.