Goodreads Turns 10!
- The Logophile
- Sep 13, 2017
- 5 min read
Updated: May 16, 2018
This month Goodreads is celebrating its 10 year anniversary! As part of the celebrations, the bookish social network has teamed up with some of our favourite authors. Together they have each compiled a list of their top books. 12 authors, over 120 book to add to your TBR list!
The Orphan Master's Son - by Adam Johnson
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Chosen by Stephen King
In 2013, the Orphan Master's Son won the Pulitzer's Prize for Fiction. An epic novel of a man's journey through the depths of North Korea.
1. Lord of the Flies - by William Golding
2. Ship of Fools - by Katherine Anne Porter
3. Watership Down - by Richard Adams
4. The Orphan Master's Son - by Adam Johnson
5. The Hair of Harold Roux - by Thomas Williams
6. Invisible Man - by Ralph Ellison
7. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - by Cormac McCarthy
8. 1984 - by George Orwell
9. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
10. The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkein
Einstein's Dreams - by Alan Lightman
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Chosen by Tana French
An inspiration for many a playwright, musician, and dancer, Einstein's Dreams is the fictional collection of the stories dreamed of by Albert Einstein in 1905.
1. Watership Down - Richard Adams
2. National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
3. Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
4. Playmaker - Thomas Keneally
5. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
6. Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
7. The King Must Die - Mary Renault
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
9. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
10. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
11. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Nutshell - by Ian McEwan
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Chosen by Khaled Hosseini
A plot, told from the perspective of the perpetrator's child - whilst still inhabiting her womb...
1. Nutshell - by Ian McEwan
2. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - by Carlo Rovelli
3. Exit West - by Mohsin Hamid
4. Between the World and Me - by Ta - Nehisi Coates
5. Transit - by Rachel Cusk
6. Outline - by Rachel Cusk
7. Astrophysics for People in a Hurrry - by Neil deGrasse Tyson
8. Heroes of the Frontier - by Dave Eggers
9. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made - by Greg Sestero
10. Family Life - by Akhil Sharma
The Red Parts - by Maggie Nelson
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Chosen by Brit Bennett
A chronicle of the murder, investigation, and trial of the case of Jane Mixer, a university student who went missing in March 1969.
1. Song of Solomon - by Toni Morrison
2. Cavedweller - by Dorothy Allison
3. The Color Purple - by Alice Walker
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God - by Zora Neale Hurston
5. The Outsiders - by S.E. Hinton
6. Go Tell It on the Mountain - by James Baldwin
7. The Red Parts - by Maggie Nelson
8. The Underground Railroad - by Colson Whitehead
9. Silver Sparrow - by Tayari Jones
10. Salvage the Bones - by Jesmyn Ward
10:04 - by Ben Lerner
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Chosen by Brian K. Vaughan
Helping your best friend to conceive, in a city which is due to be submerged underwater - after being diagnosed with a possibly fatal medical condition. What could go wrong?
1. 10:04 - by Ben Lerner
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - by Michael Chabon
3. Catch-22 - by Joseph Heller
4. The Fermata - by Nicholson Baker
5. Invisible Man - by Ralph Ellison
6. Misery - by Stephen King
7. No One Belongs Here More Than You - by Miranda July
8. Perforated Heart - by Eric Bogosian
9. A Small Killing - by Alan Moore
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
The Day of the Jackal - by Frederick Forsyth
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Chosen by Ken Follett
Espionage, English secrets, contracts to kill. An international bestseller.
1. The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun - by Sébastein Japrisot
2. The Man of Property - by John Galsworthy
3. Live and Let Die - by Ian Fleming
4. Sometimes a Great Notion - by Ken Kesey
5. The Mill on the Floss - by George Eliot
6. The Cathedral Buiders - by Jean Gimpel
7. The Day of the Jackal - by Frederick Forsyth
8. Dombey and Sons - by Charles Dickens
9. In Search of Lost Time - by Marcel Proust
10. The Mask of Dimitrios - by Eric Ambler
Where the Sidewalk Ends - by Shel Silverstein
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Chosen by Colleen Hoover
Classic poetry for both children and adults alike.
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends - by Shel Silverstein
2. In the Unlikely Event - by Judy Blume
3. Hidden Bodies - by Caroline Kepnes
4. The Japanese Lover - by Isabel Allende
5. The Sea of Tranquility - by Katja Millay]
6. Easy - by Tammara Webber
7. Every Day - by David Levithan
8. The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year - by Andy Cohen
9. Galápagos - by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
10. Me Before You - by JoJo Moyes
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - by Oliver Sacks
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Chosen by Atul Gawande
A case history of Sacks' patients with psychological and neurological disorders.
1. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - by Lewis Thomas
2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - by Oliver Sacks
3. A Farewell to Arms - by Ernest Hemmingway
4. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays - by George Orwell
6. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession - by Leo Tolstoy
7. American Pastoral - by Philip Roth
8. My Brillian Friend - by Elena Ferrante
9. Invisible Cities - by Italo Calvino
10. The Year of Magical Thinking - by Joan Didon
11. Selected Stories - by Anton Chekhov
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran - by Shahrnush Parsipur
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Chosen by Karan Mahajan
Banned in Iran, Women Without Men portrays the lives and developments of Iranian women in modern day.
1. The God of Small Things - by Arundhati Roy
2. This is Not That Dawn - by Yashpal
3. The Puttermesser Papers - by Cynthia Ozick
4. Half a Life - by V.S. Naipaul
5. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran - by Shahrnush Parsipur
6. Zeno's Conscience - by Italo Svevo
7. Herzog - by Saul Bellow
8. Crash - by J.G. Ballard
9. The Museum of Innocence - by Orhan Pamuk
10. The Painter of Signs - by R.K. Narayan
The Cry of the Owl - by Patricia Highsmith
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Chosen by Danzy Senna
A potentially psychotic husband. A dysfunctional marriage. Violence, crime, denial.
1. Quicksand - by Nella Larsen
2. A Handful of Dust - by Evelyn Waugh
3. The Unconsoled - by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Cry of the Owl - by Patricia Highsmith
5. Fatelessness - by Imre Kertész
6. White Girls - by Hilton Als
7. The Easter Parade - by Richard Yates
8. Black Looks: Race and Representation - by Bell Hooks
9. Under the Skin - by Michael Faber
10. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films - by Donald Bogle
The Hating Game - by Sally Thorne
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Chosen by Sarah J. Maas
The choice between pride and one's dream job - do you back down on hating the person you have forever hated if it means you secure your dream job?
1. The Thief - by Megan Whalen Turner
2. Captive Prince - by C.S. Pacat
3. Darkfever - by Karen Marie Moning
4. Dark Lover - by J.R. Ward
5. Angel's Blood - by Nalini Singh
6. The Book of Three - by Lloyd Alexander
7. Sabriel - by Garth Nix
8. The Hating Game - by Sally Thorne
9. The Last Unicorn - by Peter S. Beagle
10. The Star-Touched Queen - by Roshani Chokshi
Friend of My Youth - by Alice Munro
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Chosen by Lily King
Friend of My Youth is a collection of ten stories which has won a Nobel Prize in Literature. It delves into the existence of humanity and human interaction and experience.
1. To the Lighthouse - by Virginia Woolf
2. The Evening of the Holiday - by Shirley Hazzard
3. Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
4. Beloved - by Toni Morrison
5. Old Filth - by Jane Gardam
6. Dubliners - by James Joyce
7. Man Gone Down - by Michael Thomas
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - by Thomas Hardy
9. Friend of my Youth - by Alice Munro
10. Unaccustomed Faith - by Jhumpa Lahiri
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